Pronunciation of water

[Machiavellian]

To me it's wor-ter. I keep hearing 'wor-eh'. Is this not lazy? Why is the t being excluded? Am I being snobbish for thinking it sounds so lazy and uneducated?

Here you go OP.😀

To my grandad it was watter (rhyming with flatter and patter).

I don't drop the T. I also don't add an extra R 😐

Shock news: different dialects exist.

There is a correct way of saying words. If you look in a dictionary eg Oxford or Collins, the correct pronunciation is shown. The word "water" has a t in the middle which should be pronounced. Saying the word with a glottal stop in it is wrong, whether or not thousands of people say it like that.
Surely you would agree that the word "with" is pronounced with "th" at the end rather than "wiv", which is how many of the same people who use a glottal stop in "water" say it.
It's sloppy speaking, not everybody who lives in areas where people often pronounce words wrongly speaks like that or has a strong regional accent.
I grew up and live in South Wales but I made absolutely sure that my now adult children( who do have slight Welsh accents) could speak properly and not use some of the awful expressions, pronunciations and mangling of English that many people use here. A very strong regional accent can be a disadvantage in certain sectors.

Waw-ter

Scotland

Surely it's pronounced Perrier. 😉

Regional accents

I say. Wart er

Is this really new to you? You've never heard a cockney accent before now?

I’m Irish, I never knew it could be pronounced with an r.

Exactly so!

Been hearing a lot about Laura Norder recently too.

She's been hanging around for decades!

Where I am in the north west we don’t pronounce t’s in a lot of words so it’s war-eh

Wor-ter for me.

Bo'hh'o o' wo'hh'a innit guv

Definite properly. 🤷

Waw-turr here.

Right? Always the type of people who say things like "I don't speak with an accent", when actually a non-rhotic accent is really really strong.

Is the perceived extra ‘r’ just people not being to convey the pronunciation in written form? I know I struggle with writing how I pronounce something.

Wart -tuh

Op - do live around Luton area - they drop their Ts.

I have to disagree with you about dictionaries: they follow usage, rather than dictating it. That is, they describe how people pronounce words, rather than dictating how words should be 'correctly' pronounced.

Non-rhotic accents - they don't actually pronounce the R, it's just used to elongate the vowel. A H probably makes more sense to you than an R.

Have you led a sheltered life?

It does!

I pronounce it wah-durr. But I’m also a tacky American immigrant to the UK who sounds weird if I pronounce it with a hard ‘t’.

Another fun one is my English DP pronounces ‘Warsaw’ and ‘Walsall’ the same.

This is so narrow-minded and prejudiced.

Regional accents are fantastic and only to be encouraged as part of our heritage.