As a northern child, I found the idea of southern children confusing their vowel sounds kind of amusing. You know the "pin", "pan", and "pen" all sounding the same, when to me they were distinctly different.
My Anna girl is a girl of the South. She loves her greeits (grits). And today she was stumped by that adorable southern accent of hers (she's really the only one in our immediate family that has one, Daddy's wore off in college speech classes long ago). She was on the "st" in "stop" page in her phonics book, and got stuck on a word. She asked, "Mom, what is s-t-i-l-l ?" I replied teasingly, " 'still', as in are you still reading that page?" "Oh!", she returned, "I thought it was 'steal' like you steal something!" After many attempts she proudly nailed an "i" in Indian sound right in the middle of "still."
I know it's going to improve her reading, but I kind of hope that she doesn't lose that drawl.
4 comments:
I love hearing kids talk with accents, it's so cute! Emma has picked up Peter's Danish accent, and I am actually glad she has.
Hahaha! That is just too funny, but totally Anna.
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Oh I hope she keeps that silly southern accent - it's so her now!
When I taught fifth grade in VA, there was a very studious & sweet little girl named Jennifer. She had that genteel VA accent. One week, she was practicing her words aloud & came to the word Iowa. She spelled it "O-U-R". To her, Iowa, hour, & our sounded completely the same! Too cute!!
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