why do brits and hicks put r's where there are none??
 

This reporter manages to put an "r" in the word "media" (@47 seconds). WTF is wrong with you people? ;)

http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/UK-...15770185?f=rss

Kentuckians do it too!

Warsh your clothes boy.

Why do people from new england remove "r"s?

paawk ya caaaah, retaaaahd

2.5/10 trolling

we've already been through this.

you would have earned bonus points for defending (white) gravy.

hahaha


to make it more correct: why do brits and hicks put r's where there are none??

I LOVE white gravy.

I love asian people! I am dating one actually.


I still laugh every time you fucking brits put r's in shit that makes no sense. It is mind blowing how you slip them in sometimes.

I'm from Italy and live in the UK. Have you ever heard any other accents from here to claim that everyone puts extra Rs where there shouldn't be any?
Also

Mediarrrrrrr matey

it's a flying circus thing

So do some British people think that Brits who add r's sound like twats/hicks?

How does this work really? Cause that is how it works in America.

It's like that nearly everywhere, man.

I speak rhotic. You are a fuckwit. No-one has dominion over pronunciation. And, regardless, you really are a fuckwit. A pitiable one at that.

Edit: I'll note that rarely do non-English accents use the 'r' you're talking about.

Although that news clip is in England (literally a few minutes away from where I grew up, to be specific) he's actually Scottish, which is pretty distinct - accent wise - from what most would call 'standard' English. I doubt if any English person listening to him would make any value judgement about the way he spoke other than recognising that he was Scottish - which by and large isn't stigmatised at all.

He?

I just checked and they changed the video in the original link. Here is the video I was referring to (@47 seconds):

http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/vid...n_East_London_


mediarrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

Haha, yeah, she does. The 'r' is like a transition sound between the two words. I just tried it and I do exactly the same thing. It'd feel physically difficult for me to say both words seperately, like "media ... attention". My mouth naturally forms the 'r' sound straight after saying "media", but while it sounds the same as you're describing, in my head it's more "media rattention". Hmm, interesting, which comes out as, "intrestin", if I say it out loud. Sorry, I have a strange fascination with that kind of thing ... which comes out as "fing", incidentally.

you fackin cant

haha. finally a brit with a sense of humor about it. Cheers!
I think the pirate "R" thing is cute but know that I laugh my "arse" off every time you people do it. I just don't understand your need to insert the R everywhere.

FING! hahahaha. great stuff. I love the accent... I really do. This stuff just cracks me up. Ever since I was in England when I was like 10 and some woman at a counter asked my "mum": "and something for the kiddie?". I had a hard time controlling my facial expressions/laughter hearing it. I think I said that line in a fake British accent for years.

good stuff.

the "fackin" thing has never made sense to me when it's applied to people in London. We never say it like that. People say "fookin" in parts of the north but, if anything, everyone in London treats the u, as an "uh", but definitely not as an a, or "ah".

Yeah, I love that stuff too. I'm sure I mentioned this in another thread about being asked to say "mary", marry" and "merry" when i was in America because when I said it they all sounded completely different but when the people who asked me said it they sounded exactly the same. This was in Ohio, so I'm not sure if that's something specific to that region or not.

hahaha. when I say them out loud they pretty much sound the same to me. How the hell do you make them all sound different???

it's in the water, or rather, "woowta"

warsh is a south st. louis thing.

why do people from manchester say EHHHM? i don't know. i hear it 900 times a day.

that reads like a Scouser thing

Yeah, I always think of Liverpudlians when I hear the "eehm" thing, but then I watched this ...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Wo2-PImEbc

My favourite scouse accent ever has to be Jamie Carragher's:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XSD9XF6S5BE

Amazing.

Well it's actually just a link between two vowels to avoid hiatus, it's normally pronounced as a W rather than an R (I think I hear a W rather than an R in said interview - if my French ears aren't wrong though).

Only if you're Jonathan Ross.

Ok, it actually depends on the vowels :


http://cardiff.ac.uk/encap/resources...ishphrases.pdf

PS : the board can't display some phonetic symbols correctly :(

Exactly. "Here we go" poses no problems but "here it is" becomes "here-r-it is". The turning of 'in' into "im" in 'here in Britain' is also true. I just tried it. It's less obvious than the 'r' but definitely there. I'm not sure how widespread it is across other British accents but it's absolutely there in a London accent.

Implying that Londoners are real people.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XhgUeY1BExk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZR_22laWCg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oy1tf-rpQR0

"Ark at eee"

Woss bis' 'ee taykin' piss out 'v I fowr miynd? Arr Terr's a proper geez mind, proper gert lush 'ee is.

I should note that Terry's from Divvywood, so you should take what he's saying with a pinch of salt.

Just be thankful that Bristol has no real equivalent to someone like Danny Dyer. At least Terry's an official comedian.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-5WDfs8nnE

i realize hevusa was probably trying to piss people off gratuitously when he started this thread, but now speaking of dialects & such--

i was watching this irish movie "intermission" this weekend and in the closing credits colin farrell sings "i fought the law"

ignore the twatty photos & notice at about 20-25 seconds:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OWNdf9gsJZ4

i fought the lawr and the
law won

on a side note, he does a pretty good job with this cover

seems like the r serves to join with the upcoming a, so it's

i fought the lawrand the

the law won

anyway. coincidence, or magical realism?

Colin Farrell's overly exaggerated 'Oirish' accent aside, law, pronounced 'loor' ends more with a vowel sound, in that the 'r' really just accents the 'oo', giving the transitional 'r' that comes between 'law' and 'and' the same role as it would have between 'here' and 'it'.

Don't American's do the same thing with 'law', only making it more like "laar". Would they not have the same "laar-r-and the, laar won" thing? Or is it just another case of American exceptionalism?

i've never heard anybody say they watch "laa-r-and order"

"law" stays clear of getting mixed up with order (it's American segregationism)

though i've heard plenty hicks saying they have "ideaRs"

or "i'm gunna waRsh the truck"

ps- here's the original version of the song by the crickets

clearly separated (but equal!)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nxmlcTVFvic

it was the 50s-- not a good time for civil rights

hahaha. I was actually thinking of Laa and aarder when I wrote that and sat in front of my computer doing a really bad American accent, trying to see if the transitional r worked. And you're right, it didn't. Which makes me wonder if it isn't more a geographically bound thing, rather than one related to the English language in general.

Anyway, I've decided that the New Jersey accent is now my favourite American accent of them all.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vkTN4-GZQQ

Meanwhile, I'd happily pay this woman mucho pounds to shout at me like that

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpTkafjPKS8

The fact she's brandishing a power drill makes it even hotter, for some reason.