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

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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bgainor 14 points a year ago

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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