Zagorath@aussie.zone to Linguistics@sh.itjust.worksEnglish · 11 months ago

Researchers fear the British spoken 'r' is ready to roll away from the last bastion of rhoticity

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Researchers fear the British spoken 'r' is ready to roll away from the last bastion of rhoticity

Zagorath@aussie.zone to Linguistics@sh.itjust.worksEnglish · 11 months ago

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Researchers fear the spoken 'r' is ready to roll away from the last bastion of rhoticity in England

How do you pronounce your "r"s towards the ends of words like Shearer, purr, nerd and pore? And what about those in car, bird and her?

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11 months ago
Whilst interesting, ‘fear’ is not appropriate in this headline.