Researchers fear the British spoken 'r' is ready to roll away from the last bastion of rhoticity
Researchers fear the British spoken 'r' is ready to roll away from the last bastion of rhoticity
phys.org 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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Sensationalist headline-writer: "These researchers are neutrally investigating language change? Let's throw 'fear' in there to get up the prescriptivists' hackles!"
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