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Which accent adds an extra r sound to drawing?

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SandalsAndSand · 29/10/2025 20:01

So that it sounds like drawring?

That’s all thank you. It’s annoying me that I can’t remember which accent it is.

TIA

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RaraRachael · 30/10/2025 18:33

Very confusing all round.

Can we just agree that some people pronounce the letter r and some don't and weirdly that some people don't realise that others may speak differently to them 😲

SandalsAndSand · 30/10/2025 18:58

Thanks all. I didn’t expect so many replies but in the end the thread did help me to work out who my neighbour looks like. It’s taken all day to Google various phrases, AI suggested practically every other silver haired man and woman in the UK but Liverpool was the answer in this case and the presenter I was thinking of is Simon O’Brien.

I had no idea that the intrusive R was so common but I’ve learned a lot about accents and finally found the celebrity who my new neighbour resembles.

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SEmyarse · 30/10/2025 19:06

MrsMoastyToasty · 30/10/2025 18:06

Bathonians even put an R in the name of their city.

No they don't! Everyone always seems to say there are only 2 pronunciations of bath - bAth or bARth. (North and south approx)
All my relatives there pronounce the washing container as bARth, but the city is bAAth! Like a sheep. Not short like the northern way.

bloominoreilly · 30/10/2025 19:16

LuckyNumberFive · 29/10/2025 20:11

I'm Midlands based and I'd say it that way too.

I'm from E Midlands & would too

Zempy · 30/10/2025 20:08

I say Baa th. No R but no hard a sound. Maybe bahth is a better way to describe it?

SEmyarse · 31/10/2025 06:42

Zempy · 30/10/2025 20:08

I say Baa th. No R but no hard a sound. Maybe bahth is a better way to describe it?

Yeah that what I was trying to describe. It's one that comes up a lot between south and north banter. eg last. A northerner with gently rib me for saying LARst, as if I'm from Downton Abbey, and I'll find some (oh so witty) way to rib back.
But I don't say LARst at all, I say LAHst, it's just longer than the northerners say it. The West Country seems to have a third way.

ResusciAnnie · 31/10/2025 07:25

Knowsley · 30/10/2025 17:23

The first L is light and the LL dark. The tongue is in a different place when they're said.

That’s your perception though. The Ls are the same, O is a dark/dampened vowel and Y/ee is a bright (‘light’ as you put it) vowel. The Ls are the same, formed the same by the articulators. They’re just paired with different vowels.

Also your tone is everso dark. Unnecessarily so 😆

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