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At least we actually pronounce the R instead of somehow cancelling it by adding an unpronounced letter.
Says the guy that sounds like they're having an aneurysm when saying "squirrel" or "mirror" ๐
Wait what accent does thatโฝ
Sqrrrrrrrrl and meeeeeeeer
Nope, I've only heard ๐๐๐ข๐ป๐ค and ๐ฅ๐ฐ๐ฎ๐ผ
You must have only ever met those really weird Appalachian folks that apparently retained most of Shakespeare's English
A) You don't hear yourself doing it, others do. I should know, being Scottish
B) That factoid was made up by a journalist to fill column inches and is utter nonsense
Isn't your accent the one that pronounces r as some mutation of a german รผ soundโฝ
Does any non received r just sound like a stroke to you peopleโฝ
Fuckin hell, Phlubba, haud yer wheesht an away bile yer heid! ๐
You would think if yanks were this defensive, they'd have won at least one of the last dozen wars they'd started ๐๐
Unless you're from Boston, in which case it's pronounced "Hah-bah"
Pahk yah cah in the hahbah cah-pahk, Mahk!