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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Peppa and Pepper are literally pronounced the same though?
It’s just a quirk of some regional dialects..
Like how Americans in some regions take “ambulance” and drop the middle syllable, calling it an “am-lance” , or forget the rule about long/short vowels, pronouncing turbine “Turbin”
They have a horror of glottal hard stops. Same reason you usually say “you’re” instead of “you are”.
I’m surprised I haven’t seen the correct answer.
At one point, dropping the r on words that actually end in r was considered low class. Actual lower-class English speakers ended up overcompensating by adding an r where it didn’t actually belong.
Most Americans separate vowel terminal words from vowel initial words by shifting pitch between them, or stressing the initial vowel stronger than the terminal vowel, or sometimes even putting a brief glottal stop between the vowels. It varies by regional dialect.
Most Brits throw an R in between them.
That’s basically all there is to it.
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