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

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Linguistics@mander.xyzEnglish · 7 days ago

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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