why some English add ‘r’ to some words like Peppa from Peppa pig.

Question

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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Answer 1

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.