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As these clips show, so-called intrusive R has been a feature of standard speech in England (and presumably Wales, Australia and New Zealand) for at least a century. The term refers to a linking /r/ sound between the vowels of THOUGHT, PALM and commA and a following vowel, IF there’s no corresponding ‘r’ in the spelling.
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It’s interesting that the divide is in the middle of the UK…
When any of my students employ this idiot mechanic, I hold their feet to the fire and make them answer for it. "Stop right there. Spell 'Chiner' for me", "spell 'Russher' for me", "spell 'goer' for me". I turn the mirror on them and the rest of the class tears them apart for me.
But Jonathsn Ross famously cant pronouce 'r', so the clip should be titled 'intrusive w', and thus " Vanilla (w) Ice eve(w)ybody.
As someone for whom English is his second language, the intrusive R will never stop sounding… well, intrusive. It just sounds wrong.
Dr Geoff Lindsey has a video covering intrusive r, if anyone wants more context on it.
its so annoying i need to keep watching this to understand it.
So tuner has no r. But tuna does. R you crazy?
Dr Lindsey, do you suppose that the British Accent will go (back to being ) "rhotic" in the foreseeable (or not so) future?
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contraRindication, drawRing, withdrawRal …
5:07 Why doesn't "America, India" get the R? Does the comma displace it?
Feels ironic that Jonathan Ross is in this
Surely he said Vanilla w ice ?
Intrusive R is the single most annoying speech pattern ever. It is even worse than people sounding like a two year old by replacing r with w.
I don’t hear the r I don’t hear the r I don’t hear the r I literally say it but I don’t hear it there’s NOTHING there
Not trying to be mean, I TRULY love educating myself on the origin of accents as well as linguistics! 📖 🥰 I love playing Sims and I came across this nice lady’s post:
https://youtu.be/gD6JcxMbaTw?si=KK0krTsfEa8OsCl_
Does it sound to you as if she is pronouncing r’s with the words like: go, so, home, download, know, etc? I’m afraid if I straight out ask her where her accent is from, she might become insulted. 😨. However, I’m terribly curious.
As a non-native speaker, for some reason, I always notice this in posh speaker I saw online and associate the two together😅
I listen to The Rest Is History and Terrible Lizards and the word that I think sounds really funny is "drawrings". Like bro, it's already got one r in there, you don't need another.
Knock knock. – Who's there?
Eyesore. – Eyesore who?
Eyesore a film today, oh boy…
I find it strange when people do this. Especially because they don't even know they're doing it.
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dumb question – where does pronouncing the word "wash" sounding as "warsh" come from?
is it random or is there a "rule" for them to say it? I understand it is to connect vowels in a sentence, but… not always! Not everyone! so confusing!
I'm Finnish, and we have a very strong rolling r. To me, British accent with a strong, rolling r combined with the intrusive r is just heavenly ❤
But, I listen to a lot of true crime podcasts, and always wondered "lore enforcement". I tried to reproduce it, but couldn't understand how people were able to say that! After watching this video, I too can say it 😁And understand now, why people say that! Fascinating ✨
The intrusive R is an incredibly annoying, incorrect, and improper way to speak. It also adds confusion: 'ice' suddenly becomes 'rice', 'attention' becomes 'retention', etc. British people need to quit this bad, meaningless habit and start speaking proper English. Sincerely, a non-native English speaker who expects you to know how to speak your own language.