Telling porkies: no, Peppa Pig is not giving American kids British accents

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American parents say their children are adopting accents after watching the cartoon, but experts say that’s not quite the case

 

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Do you mean the kids started to speak really correct English

After nearly 250 years Peppa Pig is finally achieving her objective of reclaiming our colonies.

Just bad habits and how to throw tantrums

My three year old neighbor in Texas told me her family was going on”holiday “!

I thank that would be a good thing!

I remember asking my daughter when she was little if she could see where the lift was in the shopping centre. She looked at me blankly until she realised I was looking for the ‘elevator’. She didn’t develop an American accent but still has US vocabulary from watching US TV!

Bit of a stretch calling it a British accent....

Pity.

Better than Trump accent

It is making them doing that pig snort instead of speaking though

Define British accent.,

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