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http://goodfullness.com/american-children-are-developing-british-accents-watching-too-much-peppa-pig/American Children Are Developing British Accents Watching Too Much Peppa Pig
By Timothy Roberts
Just in case you have been completely out of the loop in recent years, its a good idea for you to get familiar with Peppa Pig. Preschoolers absolutely love this little pig, which is a British cartoon directed and produced by Astley Baker Davies and Entertainment One. It first aired in 2004 in the UK.
Although it got its start in the UK, it is now popular worldwide. It follows Peppa, who is a pig on their adventures along with their family and friends. Along with the popular television show, there are plenty of opportunities for parents to spend money by picking up all of the Peppa Pig merchandise.
It is now being referred to as the Peppa Effect and it seems to be relatively common. The voice that young children are mimicking is of Harley Bird, a 16-year-old voice actor in the UK. She started voicing the beloved pig when she was only five years old and considering the popularity of the show, its no surprise that she makes up to $1300 per hour. Harley is pocketing some $15,000 per week according to some sources.
Harley is the most successful teenage voiceover artist in Britain right now. She is hot property and easily earns £1,000 an hour.
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pnwmom
(108,977 posts)but it wasn't because of her TV watching.
It was because she didn't say her R's yet.
crazytown
(7,277 posts)SoCalDem
(103,856 posts)He called thumbs ...Flumbs...
trucks were Frucks...that one caused us problems
He grew out of it...
pnwmom
(108,977 posts)but they don't tell you how to understand them when they do . . .
I think I was usually weeks behind . . . finally realized, for example, that my toddler was calling me Baba. (Even though she was perfectly capable of saying m's, and said "mmm" when she wanted nursing.) And she was reversing the syllables on a friend's name, which took me a good while to figure out.
It was a stage for her, too, fortunately!
mitch96
(13,895 posts)Funny, my Mom told me I had the same pronunciation... Then I realized why she would put her hand over my mouth sometimes... I loved "frucks" as a kid..
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mitch96
(13,895 posts)Cold War Spook
(1,279 posts)I said it was because we used them in Asiar and Africar.
Blues Heron
(5,931 posts)Jamaicans do the same with "H" as well
ad one to "air" so it sounds "hair" for example
drop the h on Hair so it sounds " 'air"
Marley loved working with those sounds "hungry mob is an angry mob" and vice versa
samplegirl
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Peppa pig! You should hear her say George!
keithbvadu2
(36,778 posts)Celerity
(43,330 posts)resonates deep within parts of the collective American psyche. Being London raised myself, and speaking with an RP accent in most environs, (due not only to my geography and parents, but also my schooling), I definitely can attest to generally being on the end of an inherent advantage in a multiplicity of situations verbally when I am back here in the US.
whathehell
(29,067 posts)no_hypocrisy
(46,083 posts)There have been studies akin to "Henry Higgins" that adults seeking employment fare better with Eastern Atlantic accents as they are assumed to be "educated" (meaning college and beyond). If Peppa Pig had a Cockney Accent, parents would be up in arms.
Ilsa
(61,694 posts)Blues Heron
(5,931 posts)Dorian Gray
(13,493 posts)was our household favorite when my daughter was a few years younger.
One time, while driving, my daughter shouted out of the blue: "Mummy! There's a petrol station!" I totally lost it, laughing.
(But she got older, lost interest in Peppa, and those Britishisms have been lost.)
llmart
(15,536 posts)She's been watching it since she was 1. She doesn't have a British accent at all, though I think it would be cute if she did.
She makes Grandma read her the Peppa Pig stories with an accent though, and I'm afraid I don't do it justice.
It really is a cute show.
It's adorable, and your granddaughter sounds adorable, too.
llmart
(15,536 posts)She really is adorable and smart as a whip. She's my one and only grandchild - there won't be any more and my daughter got a late start on marriage and babies, so I'm late to the grandmother role and going to enjoy as much as I can because they grow up so fast.
Dorian Gray
(13,493 posts)is my in-laws only grand. (My brother and his wife have four, so my own parents have five.) Having more than one wasn't in the cards for us (not our plan, but plans rarely go as expected).
My in laws spoil her rotten, but they also have a very special relationship. Enjoy the heck out of her. And peppa! (Because when they get older, the television t why watch gets less palatable to adults!)
hunter
(38,311 posts)AwakeAtLast
(14,124 posts)Is it really an issue?
shanti
(21,675 posts)That's funny, because I was just noticing that non-American kids seem to be developing "American" (unaccented) accents. Guess it's all down to the internet.
dalton99a
(81,455 posts)Celerity
(43,330 posts)whathehell
(29,067 posts)Celerity
(43,330 posts)life in the UK across most genres of music.
whathehell
(29,067 posts)You mean like the Beatles?...Try again.
Celerity
(43,330 posts)I am referring to current top 40 pop (and only the worst type would be so generic/over-produced it takes on a US accent). Also, in the UK, a LOT of the top 40 is grime and rap like Stormzy, Wiley, etc etc. Obviously there are American artists in the UK top charts too.
More examples
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/TYv9MtpnqFRMPKP7QFcYfW/the-official-uk-top-40-singles-chart
here is the current number one song in the UK
there is nothing 'American' with his singing accent, he is a pure Scottish bloke
more top 15
grime/R n B, deffo not US accent
same
same
whathehell
(29,067 posts)Somehow I doubt that, in another 50, guys like 'Stormzy - Shut Up' will enjoy the same honor.
Celerity
(43,330 posts)Also, rap has been around since the mid-70's and has many iconic, multi-decade revered artists. I am sure grime will be the same, it is already an almost 20 year old genre itself in the UK. Musical styles evolve and change and each wave and style produces its own geniuses.
whathehell
(29,067 posts)but since you seem obsessed with what strikes me as a very small point, I think I'll just let you be happy with it. Buh bye now.
Celerity
(43,330 posts)I said it was not germane because we went down a rabbit hole into a qualitative discussion about genres of music and shifting forms over the passage of time. The original point you made that I replied was about UK singers using American accents, which I overall disagree with in terms of the present day(obviously there are exceptions), and I also provided multiple examples showing this to not be a pervasive occurrence in the current context of British popular music.
Even before that exchange, btw, you had already responded to my first post in this thread (on a different subject) with a bit of minor shade tossed on British accents in general.
I literally, in all my years in the US, have never had someone tell me that my accent was a turn off or annoying (which I due grant is anecdotal). Been asked if I was Australian (zero clue why) probably 100 plus times, but never had such a negative reaction as what you described. Perhaps people where just being polite, but seeing as the vast bulk of my living on this side of the pond has been in LA and NYC, I doubt it. Perhaps if a Brummie (Black Country/Birmingham area) or a Scouser (Liverpool) was the speaker, lol, then yes, I could see that.
Anyway, cheers and nice chatting
Renew Deal
(81,856 posts)Will anyone think about the children?
ck4829
(35,068 posts)tymorial
(3,433 posts)whathehell
(29,067 posts)gldstwmn
(4,575 posts)malaise
(268,949 posts)Lots of our kids have US accents because of cartoons
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HipChick
(25,485 posts)DFW
(54,363 posts)They only lost their German accents (in English) after going to school in the States for a few years in a row. Now, they speak both flawless American-accented English and flawless Rheinland-accented German. They consider "propah British" to be a foreign language.