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Zagorath to Linguistics@mander.xyzEnglish · 2 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

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Zagorath to Linguistics@mander.xyzEnglish · 2 months ago
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Researchers fear the spoken 'r' is ready to roll away from the last bastion of rhoticity in England
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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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    But do we know why Americans have to yell all their conversations?

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      we’re all so far away from eachother

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      An Aussie complaining about Americans yelling?

      I’m confused.

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