‘Who speaks properly?’ Hilarious moment girl with an American father and mother from Northern Ireland mimics their contrasting accents
- Kyra from Belfast demonstrates to her American father the ‘Norn Iron’ accent
- Her father asks the toddler to repeat several words using his American accent
- She then repeats the same words using her mother’s incredibly thick accent
This little girl demonstrates what it is like listening to her parents who have different accents.
Krya’s father, who is American, asks the child to say ‘down’, which she does.
Her mother, who is from Belfast asks her to repeat the word and she does so in a thick northern accent pronouncing it as ‘dow-en’.
Kyra, pictured, copied her mother and father’s contrasting accents in a short video clip which was shared online. Her mother is from Belfast while her father is from the United States
The Belfast toddler believes her mother speaks properly
They then repeat the exercise with the word towel – which is elongated to ‘tow-elle’.
Her parents then get her to say mouse, which ends up as ‘m-owse’.
Even a simple word such as now is turned into ‘n-oi’.
Eventually they speed through a few words such as cow and power – which loses its second syllable in Belfast, by being turned into ‘pawr’.
In the final few moments of the video, Kyra is asked ‘who speaks properly, mummy or daddy?’
Kyra responds: ‘Mummy.’
The family live in Belfast, Northern Ireland, and this footage was filmed on February 23.