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One of the first things Bruce makes Dick do after he begins training to become Robin is relearn the English language. Dick already speaks English; English, Spanish, French, German cusses, and even some Rom. He speaks like everyone else he knows, an accent and slang that is unique to the circus. It is beautiful, and anyone who heard and knew enough could probably tell immediately that Dick had grown up in Haley’s Circus.
As Robin, speaking in a way that could possibly allow for immediate identification would be disastrous. The secret must be kept, so Bruce makes him practice a Gotham accent because Dick is a child and a single slip of the tongue could destroy them just as easily as a slip of the mask. Eventually anything that could mark him as an outsider to Gotham has been completely excised from Dick’s vocabulary. Anyone who hears him speak might mistake him for a native son.
By the time he moves to Bludhaven he can’t even speak with the accent he once shared with his parents.