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That's not what you said in the post I quoted, and then you said how it was weird that kids with very Irish parents didn't sound Irish. Then you countered your comment about losing your Southern accent in your next post by saying kids learn to talk before they go to school, implying that your initial comment was in fact what was correct (you can see why I'm confused!)
Shimo is right, though a specific word (lorry vs truck) is not a question of accent so much as vocabulary choice. Lorry is slowly dying out as a term used in the UK in my experience.
I have no idea why you're so confused. Kids learn to talk, listening to the people they're around the most, pick up their accent, then when they go to school and are around more people they'll lose it, most likely. I didn't say that it was weird that they don't sound Irish NOW, that's you're interpretation of what I'm saying. Angel wondered why they didn't ever pick it up.