Speech Therapy
Once a week a speech therapist goes to daycare to help my daughter with her enunciation and pronunciation and it has really, really helped. I am able to comprehend her a great deal more than I used to be able to.
These days she does get upset if my wife or I do not understand what she is trying to convey. We try really hard and are patient with her.
Once a month the speech therapist comes to our home to do a lesson with us present. Recently she suggested my wife and I help with pronouncing words wit her. I looked at her and said that I couldn’t. She looked at me with a confused expression and asked why not?
I was born in Brooklyn and raised in New York. I currently reside in Indianapolis. I told her that if I helped with words, she would be wrong out here. I pronounce ‘water’ as wauter, ‘talk’ as taulk’ and I can’t even begin to spell how I pronounce coffee. I usually take off the er’s off of words and add an ‘a’. For example I say creama instead of creamer.
So the speech therapist understood. It is up to my wife to help in that department.
I tried to speak the way Hoosiers do and it sounded weird coming from me, not from them. The reciprocal is true too. Sometimes my friends try to imitate the way I speak and it sounds funny coming from them.
Therefore Caris will have an accent from Indiana. It’s all good
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