Aussies, why do you put "r" into words that don't have an "r"?

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those whacky aussies wrote:

Aussies, why do you put "r" into words that don't have an "r"?

Correct English: law

Aussie: lawr

Correct English: idea

Aussie: idear

Also, when a word has an "r", why do you Aussies leave it out?

Correct English: lawyer

Aussie: lawyah

Also, why can't you Aussies pronounce any vowels correctly?

Correct English: men

Aussie: meen

Correct English: death

Aussie: deeth

Correct English: saying

Aussie: sighing

Listing to an Aussie or Kiwi provides endless entertainment. These whole countries are full of comedians!!

Because Australian speech is nonrhotic. You could have easily looked that up if you weren't so ignorant.

Autologous Madness wrote:

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those whacky aussies wrote:

Aussies, why do you put "r" into words that don't have an "r"?

Correct English: law

Aussie: lawr

Correct English: idea

Aussie: idear

Also, when a word has an "r", why do you Aussies leave it out?

Correct English: lawyer

Aussie: lawyah

Also, why can't you Aussies pronounce any vowels correctly?

Correct English: men

Aussie: meen

Correct English: death

Aussie: deeth

Correct English: saying

Aussie: sighing

Listing to an Aussie or Kiwi provides endless entertainment. These whole countries are full of comedians!!

There are also Americans who leave the r out and most Brits too. The r that's inserted typicallyonly happens if the word following starts with a vowel. It's called intrusive r.

Why do most Americans pronounce their o's like a's? Praise Gahd!

dullard wrote:

Why do most Americans pronounce their o's like a's? Praise Gahd!

I haven't heard that from Americans, but some New Englanders probably talk like that.

Sounds like what people from Brooklyn do. Open da daw.

those whacky aussies wrote:

Aussies, why do you put "r" into words that don't have an "r"?

Correct English: law

Aussie: lawr

Correct English: idea

Aussie: idear

Also, when a word has an "r", why do you Aussies leave it out?

Correct English: lawyer

Aussie: lawyah

Also, why can't you Aussies pronounce any vowels correctly?

Correct English: men

Aussie: meen

Correct English: death

Aussie: deeth

Correct English: saying

Aussie: sighing

Listing to an Aussie or Kiwi provides endless entertainment. These whole countries are full of comedians!!

The Australian language is a variant of the Cockney dialect spoken by English prisoners who can't read. So the reason they do or don't pronounce "R"s where they do or don't exist is because their illiterate ancestors didn't know either way.

dullard wrote:

those whacky aussies wrote:

Aussies, why do you put "r" into words that don't have an "r"?

Correct English: law

Aussie: lawr

Correct English: idea

Aussie: idear

Also, when a word has an "r", why do you Aussies leave it out?

Correct English: lawyer

Aussie: lawyah

Also, why can't you Aussies pronounce any vowels correctly?

Correct English: men

Aussie: meen

Correct English: death

Aussie: deeth

Correct English: saying

Aussie: sighing

Listing to an Aussie or Kiwi provides endless entertainment. These whole countries are full of comedians!!

There are also Americans who leave the r out and most Brits too. The r that's inserted typicallyonly happens if the word following starts with a vowel. It's called intrusive r.

I should have asked, "Why do almost all Aussies and a few moronic Americans put "r" into words that don't have an "r"?"

R's are a thing to themselves. In Boston water is said watuh, drawer is said drawr, and of course car is said cah, park is said pahk. And then there is Hahvad.

It must be torture for teachers trying to teach little Aussies how to spell. You may as well just invent a new alphabet. Certainly, phonetics is useless there.

WHSHawk wrote:

R's are a thing to themselves. In Boston water is said watuh, drawer is said drawr, and of course car is said cah, park is said pahk. And then there is Hahvad.

Boston speech is an embarrassment.

People who criticise other accents and who act as if their own is correct are either less than ten years old, or idiots.

Speakers of English, why do the words "tough", "cough", "plough", "dough", and "through" end with the same four letters, but pronounce those letters differently in each word?

you must enter a username wrote:

People who criticise other accents and who act as if their own is correct are either less than ten years old, or idiots.

You didn't answer the question.

Some Americans pronounce Washington Warshington. Brooklynites and some Massachusettites drop "r's." Probably Australians drop the final 'r' in words like 'lawyer' after adding an 'r' to the 'w' because it's hard to say two 'r' sounds in a row. Try saying 'lawryer.'

those whacky aussies wrote:

dullard wrote:

Why do most Americans pronounce their o's like a's? Praise Gahd!

I haven't heard that from Americans, but some New Englanders probably talk like that.

That's cos you don't know what an actual rounded vowel sounds like and it does affect most Americans.

It's caused by a sequence of cot caught merger then the father bother merger with all those vowels ending with an unrounded a like vowel:

An additional vowel merger, the father–bother merger, which spread through North America in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, has resulted today in a three-way merger in which most Canadian and many American accents have no vowel difference in words like "palm" /ɑ/, "lot" /ɒ/, and "thought" /ɔ/.

Some example words for you that all used to have distinct vowels:

father [ˈfɑðɚ]

cot [kʰɑt̚]

caught [kʰɑt]

Why do Americans call Budweiser, Coors and Miller beer?

A+ thread. Got me to laugh on that last line 😂🤣