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A place to share screenshots of Microblog posts, whether from Mastodon, tumblr, ~~Twitter~~ X, KBin, Threads or elsewhere.

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Can you say shibboleth (lemmy.world)

submitted 8 months ago by nifty to c/microblogmemes

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

That's a new one, what's wrong with Rs?

[–] aidan 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Most English people have a non-rhotic accent, meaning not pronouncing the r after vowels so words like "better" become "betta".

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

This one seems like it's very accent-dependent. A cockney geezer will definitely say "be'aah", but a geordie would say "be'eh and someone from the west country would say "betterrrr". I think the American pronunciation makes the R sound a lot longer (you can tell I don't know all the property linguistics words!) so anything shorter probably sounds weird to you.

[–] aidan 1 points 8 months ago

I'm sure it's definitely regional, just like accents in the US. But generally in England at least it's non-rhotic. I know Scotland is different, maybe Wales too