Researchers fear the British spoken 'r' is ready to roll away from the last bastion of rhoticity
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Sensationalist headline-writer: "These researchers are neutrally investigating language change? Let's throw 'fear' in there to get up the prescriptivists' hackles!"
Yeah I'm from the north of Australia and our bogan arse accent drops the r on the end of words too.
No one says carrr It's more like cah
As far as extant English accents go, non-rhoticity is basically the default at this point. Most Americans and Canadians are rhotic, as are Irish and Scottish. Then a tiny number of English accents. That's about it.
But do we know why Americans have to yell all their conversations?
we're all so far away from eachother
An Aussie complaining about Americans yelling?
I'm confused.
cross-posted from the sh.itjust.works community from over a year ago, just because I was looking at the most appropriate linguistics community to share stuff with and noticed I shared this there, although this is a much more active community.
Wow, one thing Blackburn is notable for, I guess.