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Are North American children adopting British accents because of Peppa Pig? Several news items have surfaced today which report that North American children are adopting British accents at a very young age due to watching Peppa Pig episodes. The only source quoted is Romper which does not seem, to me, to be what I would term an 'academic' source. Is there any other source for this ? If it were true I would have expected comments to surface in the UK first, regarding a regional effect within the UK. ITV NEWS

The Guardian did a short piece on this and the bottom line is straightforward:

> American kids may have picked up a Britishism or two, but the claim that they’re developing a whole accent based off a cartoon is, according to linguistics experts, likely exaggerated.

The experts quoted in the article explain that mimicking specific words and developing an accent are two very different things.

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