ThunderComplex to badposting@hexbear.net · 5 days agoThe American spelling of flour should be flormessage-squaremessage-square30linkfedilinkarrow-up147arrow-down10file-text
arrow-up147arrow-down1message-squareThe American spelling of flour should be florThunderComplex to badposting@hexbear.net · 5 days agomessage-square30linkfedilinkfile-text
minus-squareTheLepidopterists [he/him]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·3 days agoI don’t know how I got so in my head that I convinced myself that they don’t use schwas in American accents to honestly
minus-squaregobble_ghoul [he/him]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·3 days agoMaybe because in American accents, most of the schwas are R-colo(u)red or literally a syllabic /r/, while in most British accents they are plain schwas or schwa with an /r/ inserted after if the next sound is a vowel as in Panda-r-Express.
I don’t know how I got so in my head that I convinced myself that they don’t use schwas in American accents to honestly
Maybe because in American accents, most of the schwas are R-colo(u)red or literally a syllabic /r/, while in most British accents they are plain schwas or schwa with an /r/ inserted after if the next sound is a vowel as in Panda-r-Express.