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Trash, garbage, potato chips, pants, soccer…

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UK and USA flags side-by-side

Image by JoeMitsuya from Pixabay

Are screens influencing accents? And does it matter?

More and more colleagues are remarking to me about how young children in the UK are speaking with USA accents, and using USA words.

And apparently some children in the USA are speaking in a different way after watching Peppa Pig.

Talk stimulus – what do your class think about this?

 
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