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Originally Posted by SMHarman
Alexander (2 in October) is sometimes allowed to play on the Sesame St site. If the laptop is accidentally left in the TV room he will sometimes spot it an stand pointing at it saying "elmo, elmo". Bless.
There are some very good games on that site, like the peekaboo one he loves.
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Mrs T and I are almost paranoidally careful of introducing Americanisms to our wee man. I'd cringe if I heard him say 'tomayto' or 'brought to you by the letter zee!'.
That'd put me off the Seasme Street site, although I admit I've not seen it myself.
Thankfully most electronic spelling toys these days seem to have the 'z' re-recorded for British use. However, we were in Toys'r'us looking for birthday presents at the weekend and came across some talking Bob the Builder stuff ... great, we thought, until we pressed the buttons and found the characters were talking with American accents!!
Presumably the voices are re-dubbed for broadcast in the US, which is fair enough (Clifford the Big Red Dog is re-dubbed for the UK), but trying to sell the Yankee voices back here is just arrogant corporate laziness.