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Topic: Why "sar" instead of "saw"?

  6th Dec 2021, 12:08 AM
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Quad5point1 wrote:
Twistin wrote:
In studying the British dialect, I am baffled by the rendition of the letter "r". Typically, I hear that word "saw" pronounced "soar". Often the letter is pronounced in words ending with the letter "a" -- tacking on a non-existent "r" phonic. (ie, "mommer" for mama,, like in the Slade song "Did Your Mama Ever Tell Ya") And yet words that end in the letter "r" that letter is typically not pronounced at all. (ie, well, it's not spoken in the song, but the Led Zep song title, "D'yer Mak'er"...jer-make'a) [sorry for the intentional odd music examples]

The one thing that annoys me about the English spoken on TV by presenters and the like quite often bridge two words with an 'r' The first word ends in a vowel and the next word also begins with a vowel, for example, if somebody said "The area in and around the town" would have an 'r' tagged onto the word "area" and sound like "The area (r) in and around the town". I think it's just a lazy way to say it without too much pronunciation. It's quite comprehensively explained in the attached video from You Tube
I never have a problem saying things like "media event" without the r, even when I AM doing a British accent.
A number of things he mentioned in the video, we do over here, too.


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