Learner Dad: We ended up in isolation over Christmas and watched lots of YouTube

My daughter spent a lot of time watching American kids on YouTube and her Cork accent is ‘todally’ gone

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I like my daughter’s American accent.

She’s been pronouncing totally as ‘todally’ for a while now and using it three times in the one sentence. It’s totes Californian. She also has an uptalk twang. For the uninitiated, that’s the tendency to go up a note on the last word of a sentence. It can be hard to detect in Cork people, because we’ve been doing that since 1782.