Which accent adds an extra r sound to drawing?

[SandalsAndSand]

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

lol, you nincompoop. Are you one of these northerners who are like “it’s not toothbrush it’s tuuthbrush”? I had this all the time at uni. Just because I speak with RP doesn’t mean I’m posh, I just speak how I speak. We all do!

How about try to keep this thread the way everyone else has, and talk about accents - no one is making “mistakes”, this isn’t a speech impediment, it’s the wonder of the “British” accent, and fascinating at that!

Yes, that’s probably it, I think.
We get a lot of British television.
It was obvious when I listened properly, but I simply never noticed. It had to be pointed out. I just heard an English accent and didn’t particularly observe the features that made up the accent.

It's not a mistake! It's a different accent. There are many of them and, amazingly, they are all right.

Oh, really? I don’t know why this is 🤔
How and high sound quite different when I say them. Hmm…
ETA There are loads of different Irish accents of course. They might be said similarly in the north of the country?

Brought up in the South and I say draw-ing.
Do people who say draw-ring also say saw-ring and claw-ring, out of interest?

I love everything about the Irish accents and think some say “hourr-ever” and some it’s “high-ever”. It must be a regional thing there as well.

Its an insertion of an 'r' sound that isn't there. Accent, mistake, glorious difference to be celebrated, error to be corrected, when you add a letter that isn't there, it isn't right. I know many people from the same area who say 'suddendly'. It's how people from that region say it but it's still not right.

Yes - I do pronounce an r in those words too.

I think you’re thinking of a few specific NI/north of the island accents. It certainly isn’t a feature of the majority of Irish accents the way rhoticity is.

You can think it’s a mistake all you want, but there is no right or wrong to pronunciation. Just accent!

I'm not a loon, I'm a linguist. Of course regional accents aren't 'wrong'. Has it not occurred to you that not all differences in pronunciation are down to regional accent? It certainly seems to have occurred to you, since your example of the v/th 'mistake' is something that many people would class as a feature of regional accent (London / cockney).

That's just not true. There is a difference between mispronunciation and accent. Are you saying that mispronunciation doesn't exist?

You are so wrong, I don't know where to start. Pronouncing letters that 'aren't there' or missing out letters that are very normal in English. In fact, the spelling can sometimes be a pretty poor clue to the pronunciation. I'm pretty sure you sound a 'w' in 'language' and yet there's no 'w' there. Do you sound a 'g' in 'laugh'? Or the final 'n' in 'autumn'?

I disagree. Like where I'm from, people say hosdibal for hospital. I understabd them, obviously, but its wrong. Also, when you're learning another language, pronunciation matters. If I say 'joy-ex' Noel in French for Happy Christnas, someone will tell you that you're pronouncing it wrong.

I got so much abuse on here a while back for saying that I pronounce the r in Oxford. Apparently it's Ox-fud and I was mispronouncing it.
Nothing to do with the fact that I have a choice accent and therefore pronounce the r sound in words.

Big news - in the UK there are regional accents 😆

Pricelessadvice · Today 06:53

Those who don’t put an ‘r’ in, do you say it like “drorwing”?
I genuinely can’t get my head around how not to put an ‘r’ sound in.

Try saying 'draw' and 'ing' with a pause in between them, then shrink the pause until they run together! You just say the 'aw' sound, followed immediately by the 'ing' sound, with no 'w' or 'r' sound between them.

Yes, you’re putting in a mini-glottal stop between the syllables.

When I read threads like these I always feel so sorry for English children learning to spell when they pronounce words like door and saw as rhyming for example, it must be confusing to work out the correct spelling. I'm Scottish and say words as they are written more or less which makes spelling so much easier.

@SandalsAndSand, did this thread help you recognise who your neighbour reminds you of?

It's not just regional accent though @RaraRachael @Ozgirl76
I agree with @MagicLoop

I hear three different pronunciations of drawing in Liverpool. All said with a scouse accent.

I also pronounce the r in words and also say Oxford.

Me too, and when I'm reading a certain Julia Donaldson book, can't remember which, her rhymes don't always work in my accent and the flow all falls apart.

Yes, exactly re Julia Donaldson. DS is now a teenager, and I’m trying to remember whether the one that didn’t work at all for me was in The Gruffalo/The Gruffalo’s Child or The Smartest Giant.

Yes, the rhyming books are hit and miss. Scarf and giraffe don’t rhyme for me. Nor do sofa and gopher 😅
(Can’t remember whether the above are examples from Julia Donaldson or someone else.)

That sounds so strange to me 😅

Thank you! Scarf and giraffe is definitely one JD instance I remember. Though admittedly, I doubt that works well in most English varieties.