I’m American and cannot figure out how the r is added to Peppa’s name when her dad says it. It sounds like Pepper. Not saying it’s wrong. My brain just needs to connect lol
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It’s called an intrusive R. Where words like saw and idea come before a vowel, there’s an increasing tendency among speakers of British English to insert an ‘r’ sound, so that law and order becomes law-r and order and china animals becomes china-r animals. Linguists call this ‘intrusive r’ because the ‘r’ was never historically part of the word.
Britisher here, is this really a thing? I just watched way to much Peppa pig on YouTube before hearing daddy pig say Peppa, and I don’t hear no r.
They decided that if the posh accents aren’t going to use the rhotic r, somebody had better
Drives me wild when you’re listening to a British Youtuber and they just happen to mention their favorite video game ever is Ocariner of Time
I last watched the British show Skins well over a decade ago, and I still have to stop myself from saying “vodkar” out loud when talking about the liquor, they said it so much it just stuck with me as my favorite pronunciation.
What’s interesting is I’ve also heard many British people insist that they don’t do it so I think it might be one of those things only an outsider hears.
As opposed to what? Peppahhhhh Pig?
Like a champagne supernover in the sky?
More common in the south west of England (the West country) – the south east (including London) typically does not have this pronunciation
The same reason Americans call the frozen fruity dessert “sherbert ” it’s just sherbet. One r.
I watched a Rob’s Words video on YouTube where he stated that it was as a way to separate two back to back vowel sounds. So if the word ends with a vowel and next starts with a vowel, an r sound is inserted to differentiate between them
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