Researchers fear the British spoken 'r' is ready to roll away from the last bastion of rhoticity
a year ago by Zagorath to c/linguistics
Yeah I'm from the north of Australia and our bogan arse accent drops the r on the end of words too.
No one says carrr It's more like cah
As far as extant English accents go, non-rhoticity is basically the default at this point. Most Americans and Canadians are rhotic, as are Irish and Scottish. Then a tiny number of English accents. That's about it.
But do we know why Americans have to yell all their conversations?
An Aussie complaining about Americans yelling?
I'm confused.
cross-posted from the sh.itjust.works community from over a year ago, just because I was looking at the most appropriate linguistics community to share stuff with and noticed I shared this there, although this is a much more active community.
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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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