A teacher who pronounces library as "liberry"

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP it only grates on you because you associate it with being lower class, which you’re trying hard to have your kid not be.

In reality, this isn’t going to have any long term impact on your kid’s socio-economic
status or their ability to pronounce “library” correctly so just stop torturing yourself.

It does reflect negatively on someone if they say liberty. It just does.

[Anonymous]

When my kid said “Can I axe you a question.” I seriously thought about pulling them out of public school. Deep breathing then made the correction…

[Anonymous]

Lie berry

[Anonymous]

My mom's family says liberry, woofs (wolves), draws (drawers), and warsh. My dad insisted on standard pronunciation at home, so I've never used the regional/rural version. Kids adapt easily to this kind of thing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Poor teachers get criticized at every turn. It’s no wonder so many are quitting.

+1

Is the teacher native to the Mid-Atlantic US?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Op how do you pronounce guillotine?

My teachers always said gill- vs gee- and I was raised here

Like it's spelled: gwil-o-teen

[Anonymous]

Isn’t this just what black people say? It’s not wrong, it’s their dialect.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP it only grates on you because you associate it with being lower class, which you’re trying hard to have your kid not be.

In reality, this isn’t going to have any long term impact on your kid’s socio-economic
status or their ability to pronounce “library” correctly so just stop torturing yourself.

When someone pronounces the "t" in "often" it grates on me, but I don't associate it with being lower class.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My mom's family says liberry, woofs (wolves), draws (drawers), and warsh. My dad insisted on standard pronunciation at home, so I've never used the regional/rural version. Kids adapt easily to this kind of thing.

Are pitcher and picture homophones by any chance?

[Anonymous]

Kids will pick up local speech patterns and you teach them different on the ones that annoy you. My mother didn’t mind the dialect I was raised in but had issues with the volume so I was constantly corrected for speaking too loudly. As an adult I’m apparently soft spoken. My sister’s kids got corrected out of a southern accent at home (she can totally code switch into one if she wants). My kids get a lot of “don’t say not nothing, say not anything” and I’m sure it’ll sink in eventually. Fine that the transfer says it but definitely correct your kid if it bugs you.

[Anonymous]

Sort of sounds like how the English say library. Lie-bry.

[Anonymous]

I'd be careful about criticizing this in front of your child, as it comes off a a racist microagression.

Just keep pronouncing it the way you and your child pronounce it, and they're not going to pick up on it. They're going to learn people speak differently which is a gift. If your child picks it up you can say "I know Ms. Smith says it that way because it's her accent. You don't have that accent though, so try saying library." I wouldn't say "we" -- that's a whole different can of worms.

[Anonymous]

I am sure your kid will be fine, particularly after they get teased for it in other settings

Just like long islanders who get teased for saying pitcher for picture

I had teachers with all kinds of weird (to me) pronunciations and I turned out fine. Took me a while to shake “Me and …” but that’s also just a kid thing.

Teachers who can’t spell or make constant typos … now that drives me a little nuts.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'd be careful about criticizing this in front of your child, as it comes off a a racist microagression.

Just keep pronouncing it the way you and your child pronounce it, and they're not going to pick up on it. They're going to learn people speak differently which is a gift. If your child picks it up you can say "I know Ms. Smith says it that way because it's her accent. You don't have that accent though, so try saying library." I wouldn't say "we" -- that's a whole different can of worms.

+1

[Anonymous]

New Englanders and their inability to deal with r’s IDK why nor do I care