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03-31-2005, 09:16 PM #22
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Introduce yourself in your native slang
Yes, you are correct. Those dialects of English which don't pronounce all their R's only omit the R if the R doesn't come before a vowel sound (like it always does at the beginning of a word), so "law" and "lore" sound the same, as do "calmer" and "karma". And sometimes they'll reverse the process: since they can't tell the difference between "law" and "lore", some of them will insert an R-sound to either word if the next word starts in a vowel and say things like "lore and order" or "Chiner and Japan", which sound funny to those of us who pronounce an R every time we see one (and in the word "colonel" which should have an R but doesn't due to a freak linguistic accident).
Originally Posted by RIP ODB
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