Peppe Pig and British English

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Preetika Rana and Meghan Bobrowsky, Bing-Watching 'Peppa Pig' Has Preschoolers Speaking Colourfully; American children adopt British accents, surprising their parents' 'How Clever!'  Wall Street Journal, July 19, 2021 (front page).
https://www.wsj.com/articles/pep ... british-11626627266
https://www.fnlondon.com/article ... sh-accents-20210719

Note:
(a) "California kindergartner Dani stunned her parents in May when she addressed her mom, who said she was going to the eye doctor, in a polished British accent: 'Mummy, are you going to the optician?'  'And we were like, "the what?" ' says Dani's father, Matias Cavallin. 'That's [Optician's] like a college-level word,' he says. * * * Dani's grandparents — immigrants from Argentina who mostly speak Spanish"
(i) A unisex name in English, Dani is short from Daniel (male given name; meaning "God is my judge" in Hebrew) or Danielle (female given name).  

Daniel in Spanish or Portuguese is also spelled the same, but pronounced slightly differently, See
What is the name Daniel in Spanish?  Spanishdict.com, updated Apr 15, 2010
https://www.spanishdict.com/answ ... e-daniel-in-spanish
("Daniel is the same in Spanish; however, it is pronounced like Dañel (with an emphasis [ie, accent] on the ñe)" )

(ii) The noun mummy (whether it means mommy (for mother) or an Egyptian artifact has the first vowel pronounced as "ə."
(iii) Matías
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matías   
("Matías is the Spanish version of Matthew. In Scandinavian languages (Norwegian, Swedish, Danish and Finnish) and in Portuguese it is unaccented as Matias")

(b)
(i) Peppa Pig
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peppa_Pig
(originally aired in 2004)
(ii) Wife of Prince William of United Kingdom, Kate Middleton has a younger sister Pippa Middleton whose birth name is Philippa.
(iii) Joseph
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph
(The only "female form" for Peppa is: "Catalan : Josepa, Pepa, Peppa (shortened)" )

In English, the pet form of Joseph is Joe or Jo. Pet form in Catalan is Pep (an example: Manchester footballer from Spain Josep "Pep" Guardiola Sala); in Spanish Pepe or Che. See José
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/José  
(The "female form" for Joseph -- which in English is Josephine -- is: "Catalan : Josepa, Pepa, Peppa (shortened)" )


(c) "As a result, Cavallin [Dani's father] says, he went from papa to 'Daddy,' said in the British way. His daughter calls the gas station the 'petrol station' and cookies 'biscuits.' "
(i) biscuit
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biscuit
shows photos of British definition, except a photo whose caption reads: "North American biscuit (left)." Click it and the new Wiki page will tell you that in the United States, biscuit is served in breakfast or sometimes on Thanksgiving, or as an accompaniment to friend chicken.
(Years after I came to America, I was still puzzled why Americans call cookies cookies (in Taiwan we use Oxford or Cambridge dictionaries, so definitions and pronunciations are British), but after learning its etymology (from Dutch language; the Dutch once colonized lower Manhattan as New Amsterdam), it became natural that American call cookie cookie.

(d) "In December, 6-year-old Aurelia insisted on the British holiday traditions of wearing a crown and baking mince pies for 'Father Christmas,' says her mother, Lauren Ouellette, in North Scituate, Rhode Island. 'It gave us room to explore something new. Is Father Christmas the same guy as Santa [the answer is yes]? And why is he called that?' she says.  Aurelia throws around phrases like, 'Can we turn the telly on?' A reference to the water closet instead of the bathroom initially threw off Ouellette."
(i)
(A) flushing toilet
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flush_toilet
("From the sixteenth century in England, a private room (a closet) with a flushing toilet was referred to as a Water Closet ('WC'), in contrast with an Earth Closet ('EC')")
(B) Toilets, Earth Closets, and House Plumbing. In The History of Sanitary Sewers. undated
www.sewerhistory.org/photosgraph ... and-house-plumbing/
("Earth closet – Dry earth is used to cover waste material for later removal. Henry Moule patented one design in 1869, advertising it as a great improvement over the cesspit. A photo of an antique Moule earth closet and accompanying text can be found at the Outhouses of America website")
(ii) The surname Ouellette is "Canadian spelling of French (Norman and Champenois) Ouilet, from a Frenchified form of Willet, a pet form of William."

Its pronunciation is
https://www.pronouncenames.com/ouellette