"I'm not arguing with you, little girl"
-my six year old sister to my three year old sister
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ArishMell · 70-79, M
Like mother like daughter, I suppose...
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Oddest I recall hearing was between my sister and her friend when they were both about five or six. Playing in a sand-pit in the garden, they were discussing very earnestly the "correct" pronunciation of 'sand castle'.
"Carstle" the friend insisted - as typical in Southern English accents.
"Castle!" [hard 'a'], sister demanded.
Both girls, and I, are Southerners born and bred but my sister and I had inherited elements of our parents' Midlands accents.
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Oddest I recall hearing was between my sister and her friend when they were both about five or six. Playing in a sand-pit in the garden, they were discussing very earnestly the "correct" pronunciation of 'sand castle'.
"Carstle" the friend insisted - as typical in Southern English accents.
"Castle!" [hard 'a'], sister demanded.
Both girls, and I, are Southerners born and bred but my sister and I had inherited elements of our parents' Midlands accents.
AmmieBell · 18-21, F
@ArishMell issues like that come up a lot in my house lol. My mom's from England and my dad was born in the USA, so one has an accent and one doesn't. Which results in my siblings and I developing different speech patterns 😂 I speak more like my mom and so do some of my sisters while the rest of my siblings have more of a USA dialect lol
ArishMell · 70-79, M
@AmmieBell Both of your parents have accents - we tend to think of those whose accents is the same as our own, as having no accent. They do but because it is close to our own voice we do not notice it.
I encountered this myself last year, during a long weekend in the English Midlands. I stayed in a village not ever so far from the cities of Coventry, Birmingham, Derby and Nottingham, and there seemed to be two local voices.
One was the recognisable group of slightly nasal accents from the Birmingham conurbation and its neighbouring Black Country (and Coventry?), quite different from Derby and Nottingham.
The other I could not place and seemed almost accent-less. Then I realised it was probably very close to my voice, which blends my native Southern English with the Nottingham accent inherited from my parents, and more recently, touches of generic-Northern dialect from a circle of friends in the Northern counties.
One difference you raise is that Americans call her Mom. Britons, or at least the English, generally say Mum in Southern England but more often Mam in the Midlands and North accents, where the dialects also frequently preface close-relation titles and names with an "our" usually just implied in Southern English. It does not signify any difference in affection or closeness, but is simply a point of dialect.
I am a South Coast native and resident, but Southerners detect that Midlands/Northern tone, and Northerners say I sound Southern!
I encountered this myself last year, during a long weekend in the English Midlands. I stayed in a village not ever so far from the cities of Coventry, Birmingham, Derby and Nottingham, and there seemed to be two local voices.
One was the recognisable group of slightly nasal accents from the Birmingham conurbation and its neighbouring Black Country (and Coventry?), quite different from Derby and Nottingham.
The other I could not place and seemed almost accent-less. Then I realised it was probably very close to my voice, which blends my native Southern English with the Nottingham accent inherited from my parents, and more recently, touches of generic-Northern dialect from a circle of friends in the Northern counties.
One difference you raise is that Americans call her Mom. Britons, or at least the English, generally say Mum in Southern England but more often Mam in the Midlands and North accents, where the dialects also frequently preface close-relation titles and names with an "our" usually just implied in Southern English. It does not signify any difference in affection or closeness, but is simply a point of dialect.
I am a South Coast native and resident, but Southerners detect that Midlands/Northern tone, and Northerners say I sound Southern!