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LotrOrc@lemmy.world 1 month agoThats more American in my experience That and completely dropping entire parts of words for absolutely no reason I can understand
Ex. Comfortable somehow becomes comftable. Drawer becomes drawr. Wednesday becomes wensday
bampop@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Lemminary@lemmy.world 1 month ago
And hhherbs, because there’s a fucking H in it!
HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
I’ve only ever heard that “added r” thing when watching BBC stuff. Can you link me to some Americans saying drawring instead of drawing, for example?
LotrOrc@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Huh thats really interesting ive never heard that on BBC
Its all over the place in New England especially in MA
Alaik@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
I didnt know people from Boston could pronounce Rs at any point, let alone add more. “Pahk the cah.”
HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
Hm, I’ll try and find some examples. It just fascinates me how things like language evolve chaotically, like tiny changes that somehow then become the new equilibrium point.
waterSticksToMyBalls@lemmy.world 1 month ago
The added r shows up in American Midland dialect. Wash becomes warsh, etc
HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
Interesting, thanks.
damnedfurry@lemmy.world 1 month ago
People (I’m in the US) are pretty much always astonished to realize, when I ask them to say the word “important”, that they more often than not will pronounce zero of the T’s in the word, when I point it out that they didn’t.
It always really stuck out to me as a kid when Shawnee Smith (probably most famous for the Saw movies now), on the old sitcom Becker, would always enunciate the T’s in that word—that’s what made me realize how weird it was that everyone wasn’t saying it that way, lol.