Comment on Anon is Bri’ish

• damnedfurry@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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.

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• bampop@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  There’s a lot of commonality there.

  Example:

  youtu.be/x-xTttimcNk

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• Lemminary@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  And hhherbs, because there’s a fucking H in it!

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• HugeNerd@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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?

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  • LotrOrc@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Huh thats really interesting ive never heard that on BBC

    Its all over the place in New England especially in MA

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    • Alaik@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I didnt know people from Boston could pronounce Rs at any point, let alone add more. “Pahk the cah.”

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    • HugeNerd@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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.

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  • waterSticksToMyBalls@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The added r shows up in American Midland dialect. Wash becomes warsh, etc

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    • HugeNerd@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Interesting, thanks.

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