A trivial matter in the grand scheme of things of course but:
I first noticed this as a school boy "oop north" when a teacher from down south joined the staff and caused great hilarity by saying "drawrings" instead of "drawings".
It seems to be a southern phenomenon but not at all a type of chavspeak. Some of the worst offenders are media types who speak middle class "received" or "BBC" English.
It amounts to an inability to pronounce two successive vowel sounds without putting an "r" between.
A few examples I have heard in the radio, mainly over the past week or so:
West Brom managed a one-all drawragainst Aston Villa.
Planning the withdrawral from Afghanistan.
Chris Grayling is seeking a change in the lawron reasonable force against burglars.
The police are trying to restore Laura Norder.
And on Radio 4's "Poetry Please" in an otherwise moving reading of Oscar Wilde's "Ballad of Reading Jail":
"But I never sawraman who looked
So wistfully at the day.
I never sawraman who looked
With such a wistful eye."
Grrrrrrrrr!
AIBU?
To wonder why people put "r"s where they don't belong?
somebloke123 · 09/10/2012 11:32
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dh drives me nuts by pronouncing huge as youj and Hugh and youj
From your list Euphemia, I think I would pronounce Pore and poor the same, more or less. The ones with/without r's though are very different (saw, sauce, Paw do NOT have r's in them [mutter]).
As for look, cook, book, I can't cope if the oo are pronounced like pool or cool.
This thread has made me realise how intolerant I am 
, which since I have one teenager with a very strong Dublin skanger accent, one who sounds rather posh and one who sounds American is very strange. I manage to ignore most of what they say 
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These threads always have me sitting speaking to myself, trying to work out what I actually say
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poor and p-oar? nooo!
poor has oo in it = as in moo like a cow surely?
No, no, Poor doesn't have an oo as in moon. Nooooooo.
It sounds with oar, as in a rowing boat. Or pore, bore, sore, door, whore .
I think I might fit nicely into your arguments Euphemia.
The arguments in this house stem from the fact that we are in Ireland and my mum was Church of Ireland, my dad was Catholic. We were brought up with Protestant pronunciation of words like scone (gone, not cone) and yoghurt (again o as in on, not o as in oh) and worst of all I say aitch not haitch.
People can tell my religion from my accent 
Yes it does
poor and pour don't sound the same
poor is p-oo-r, as in m-oo
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Oops, there should have been a 
after my second sentence, before all "you English" get all cross with me 
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I eat scone (gone) but I live very near the village of Scone (S-coon)
Probably wrongly, Moln
Judging by her list of errors . She must talk about paw saw paws.
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