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Re: Correcting kids
Originally Posted by Danny B
(Post 8744349)
My Daughter came over at 3 years of age, by her 5th Birthday all traces of her common English accent were gone. Hallelujah she now has a beautifully sounding west coast accent and has stopped staying 'sumfink' & 'firty free'.
My Son on the other hand still has traces of his old accent, he was 11 at the time of the move and is now 14. He can turn it off and on when it's needed, usually when teenage girls are around... My 11 year old came back over when he was 7 and he still has a Yorkshire accent. He was born in Canada but went to Yorkshire when he was 1. My 15 year old came back to Canada when he was 11. He is using mostly Canadian but still uses some Brit words. He is a hit with the girls, mainly due to him turning on the accent when it suits and being 6'2" with big blue eyes! He was born in Canada, but lived in the UK from 4/5-11 years old. He seems different than the Canadian boys - he likes to dress stylish and has a strong sense of "lad" about him. We rotate between using British words and Canadian words here, just depends what come out the mouth at the time of the conversation. My Canadian Hubby tends to use more British words than me. Words like: Path/Sidewalk, Bin/Rubbish/garbage, are all used interchangeably in our house. My parents are British and living in Canada. Growing up my mom made us speak and eat properly. But she was always posh... My husband keeps the kids behaving properly when we are out, but it was that way in the UK and here. |
Re: Correcting kids
My 8 year old has her Brit accent at home (though that she has never lived in the UK) and her Canadian accent with her friends. When hearing her speak to me people here have said, "Oh - she puts on an excellent British accent" which always makes me laugh.
The accents and Canadian slang don't get to me (though often surprise - heard "making strange" for the first time yesterday! Strange what exactly?) but the murdering of grammar does! I have to calm myself when I hear "I wouldn't have done that if I would have know this" or "Did you do that yet?". But then again I am a sad grammar snob!!! |
Re: Correcting kids
Originally Posted by Almost Canadian
(Post 8742329)
They will likely talk with a Canadian accent and they will likely use the Canadian noun rather than the English one. I don't, but accept that my kids do, to do anything else is just swimming against the tide.
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One of the things I hate the most is to hear people pronounce 'Herbs' as 'Erbs'. Even on commercials. I just annoys me. Are they trying to be cool or something?
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Re: Correcting kids
Originally Posted by John_B
(Post 8758007)
One of the things I hate the most is to hear people pronounce 'Herbs' as 'Erbs'. Even on commercials. I just annoys me. Are they trying to be cool or something?
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You know the one thing that really annoys me about the way that Canadians pronounce things?
It is the way they pronounce my name... I am NOT called Loddy fgs! |
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My son Arran now has his name pronounced Erin by everyone except us. People look at us blankly when we refer to him as Arran because they don't know who we mean :eek:
Arran's accent is completely Canadian with no trace of Scottishness whatsoever - changed within a year of arriving back in 2007, age 12. At his recent parent/teacher evening all his teachers at the high school were hugely surprised to hear our Scottish accents. His older brother had gone 'all Sheena Easton" for a couple of years but thanksfully it's 90% Canadian now :rofl: As adults, our accents have not changed at all but we do use Canadianisms to be understood outside the home. On our recent trip to Maine, people asked where we were from and when we answered Nova Scotia, a couple of times people said "I recognise the accent" yeah, right :rofl: |
Re: Correcting kids
Originally Posted by Cookie
(Post 8759244)
My son Arran now has his name pronounced Erin by everyone except us. People look at us blankly when we refer to him as Arran because they don't know who we mean :eek:
Arran's accent is completely Canadian with no trace of Scottishness whatsoever - changed within a year of arriving back in 2007, age 12. At his recent parent/teacher evening all his teachers at the high school were hugely surprised to hear our Scottish accents. His older brother had gone 'all Sheena Easton" for a couple of years but thanksfully it's 90% Canadian now :rofl: As adults, our accents have not changed at all but we do use Canadianisms to be understood outside the home. On our recent trip to Maine, people asked where we were from and when we answered Nova Scotia, a couple of times people said "I recognise the accent" yeah, right :rofl: |
Re: Correcting kids
Originally Posted by el_richo
(Post 8758204)
I've never pronounced the H, and i'm far from cool. :blink:
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Re: Correcting kids
Originally Posted by TLR
(Post 8757724)
The accents and Canadian slang don't get to me (though often surprise - heard "making strange" for the first time yesterday! Strange what exactly?) but the murdering of grammar does! I have to calm myself when I hear "I wouldn't have done that if I would have know this" or "Did you do that yet?". But then again I am a sad grammar snob!!!
"I would of done dat if I'd knew dis.":thumbup: |
Re: Correcting kids
Originally Posted by triumphguy
(Post 8765041)
I know - everyone knows that in most of England it's said:
"I would of done dat if I'd knew dis.":thumbup: |
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Why can't you teach her both. If she's capable of learning another completely different language, she's more than capable of knowing both. Besides, Canadian English did originate from British English. Even some of the mind control brainwashed crowd on this site can't deny that, despite wanting to.
Don't feel bad about it. Canadians are 'meant' to be open to other cultures. Why should she suppress her heritage and yours to be just like the rest of them?! Enrich her vocabulary and culture and have her know both versions.
Originally Posted by Vikty
(Post 8741616)
I'm relatively new to Canada, been here since March. I have a 3 year old daughter, she's in daycare.
She's starting picking up Canadianisms. Like calling the bin a garbage can, calling football soccer, she even said awsome the other day! When she says these Canadian terms I have to really bite my tongue not to correct her. When she says for eg 'lets play soccer' I've said 'Its called football' before I've even thought about it, its like a reflex. I was wondering if anyone else corrects their kids on Canadianisms? I actually want my daughter to speak Canadian and fit in with her friends, so why is it so hard not to want to correct her? |
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