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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. |
Mrs H is American as such it is inevitable that he will get introduced to them He's already flown over 40,000 miles before his 2nd birthday!
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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!!  |
I do find it funny on some of the toys we have (the
leapfrog Drum springs to mind) where they have clearly just dubbed the z not the rest of the alphabet and it is said so differently that it it clear it is someone else. I also find the
Alphabet Pal® Caterpillar funny, it has a phonetic option, but if you try to get it to phonetically say rude words it giggles instead.
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Originally Posted by Chris T
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. |
Arrogant corporate buying power IMHO, ToysRUs probably found it cheaper to buy the toy in the US and import it themselves, leading to the import of the US voices.
Anyone else remember speak and spell not being able to spell colour.