You say tomato... 増加するing number of American children are speaking with British accents after binge-watching Peppa Pig during the pandemic

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Some American children have begun speaking with British accents and using words like 'telly' after they binge-watched the English 風刺漫画 Peppa Pig during the Covid-19 pandemic.

The so called 'Peppa 影響' had children already mimicking the main character before the pandemic, but the lockdown and stay-at-home orders made the 影響 more 普及した.

Parents were working from home and ーするために have Zoom calls without distraction, they 許すd their children to have more 審査する-time.

But now they are finding that their kids are now speaking with polished British accents - just like Peppa, the main character of the show.?

American children are now speaking with British accents and using words like 'telly' after they binge-watched the English 風刺漫画 Peppa Pig during the Covid-19 pandemic

The so called 'Peppa 影響' had children already mimicking the main character before the pandemic, but the lockdown and stay-at-home orders made the 影響 more 普及した. Pictured: A Peppa Big booth at Comic-反対／詐欺 International in San Diego, California in 2019

Dani, a five-year-old kindergartner from California, baffled her parents when she asked her mom, who said she was going to the 注目する，もくろむ doctor, in an English accent: 'Mummy, are you going to the optician?'

'And we were like, "the what",' Dani's father, Matias Cavallin, told the 塀で囲む Street 定期刊行物. 'That's like a college-level word. At least, I wasn't using it.'?

Dani has now changed a lot of her vocabulary - all because she watched Peppa Pig throughout the pandemic after Cavallin let her watch it while he worked from home and his wife worked in an office.?

'It was almost like a happy 事故 at a time when I was trying to find a pseudo babysitter during Zoom 会合s,' Cavallin, a public-relations 経営者／支配人 in El Cerrito?said about finding the 風刺漫画 at the start of the pandemic.?

But now Dani calls Cavallin 'daddy' in a British accent rather than 'papa'. She also says '石油 駅／配置する' instead of gas 駅／配置する and '薄焼きパン／素焼陶器s' instead of cookies, and when her father has a cup of coffee, Dani asks, 'Are you having tea now?'?

He also tweeted: 'On a 最近の vacation, my 5-year-old dared tell me that she was loving her holiday.?I told her, we speak American in this house...and Spanish too.'

Cavallin told the news 出口 that Dani's grandparents, who mostly speak Spanish after emigrating from Argentina, joke: 'We don't understand her to begin with, and now she's speaking British?'?

The family are not alone in their predicament as Peppa Pig has left many American children now 可決する・採択するing a British Accent.?

Peppa Pig was the world's second-most in-需要・要求する children's 風刺漫画 for the 12 months ending February after 'SpongeBob SquarePants', によれば data by entertainment 協議するing 会社／堅い Parrot Analytics. The show also jumped to the world's 50th most in-需要・要求する program of any 肉親，親類d, up from 203rd the previous year.

Parents are finding that their kids are now speaking with polished British accents - just like Peppa, the main character of the show.

The family are not alone in their predicament as Peppa Pig has left many American children now 可決する・採択するing a British Accent

'Young Peppa fans see her as a friend…and, as we do with friends that we admire, 選ぶ up some of their 特徴,' Peppa Pig owner Entertainment One Ltd. told the 出口 in a written 声明. 'Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery,' it 追加するd.

一方／合間, six-year-old Aurelia from North Scituate, Rhode Island, has 主張するd on the British holiday tradition of baking mince pies for 'Father Christmas' after watching Peppa Pig religiously, her mother Lauren Ouellette said.?

'It gave us?room to 調査する something new. Is Father Christmas the same guy as Santa? And why is he called that?' she said.??

Aurelia also now asks, 'Can we turn the telly on?' and called the bathroom a water closet.?

'I was like, "Where did she learn that from? Was she on the Titanic in a past life?",' Ouellette said, 追加するing that it became （疑いを）晴らす why her daughter had 選ぶd up a British accent when they watched the 風刺漫画 together.?