I don't really know how or why, but Abby has developed a southern twang. I guess you'd have to blame me, 'cause Kyle prides himself on not having much of an accent. Still. There's no reason Abby's accent should be SO strong. I have to think that part of it is from me, but that part of it is just her being a little lazy in her speech sometimes.
The hardest for her right now is the "O" sound. Instead of saying "Down" she says "Dow-un"
The other night at dinner, Abby says: "May I get dow-un pwease?"
I giggled and Kyle shot me this look and said "don't encourage her"
But, of course, I had. I can't help it. I think it's cute.
The rest of the conversation went like this:
Kyle: "Abby, say dOWn"
Abby: "Dow-un"
Kyle: "dOWn"
Abby: "Dow-un?"
Kyle: "Say OW"
Abby: ""OW"
Kyle: "Good, now say dOWn"
Abby: "dow-Un"
Kyle: (sigh) "Ok. Abby. What animal says "Mooo?"
Abby: "A Cow-uh"
we died laughing. Me and Abby. Kyle just put his head on the table and gave up.
later y'all.
4 comments:
It must be her Southern Ouma!! LOL!!
This reminds me of your Grandpa Armstrong trying to get you to say cake and you'd say "kaike." So funny!
LOVE IT!
We LIVE in the south, but I don't feel we have super-strong accents. Paige says some words sometimes that I know come from her very accented teachers at school — and, like Kyle, it makes me cringe ;)
LOL! Reminds me of Patrick, too. When he was little and talked to anyone on the phone, he would always say, "Hello-wah??"He still sometimes pronounces the "g" at the end of "ing" words, even now...
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