Current Events > Why dont British people use the R sound

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It was pronounced in old english

Like literally the way they say car

is Cah

What gives?

And they add nonexistent R's if a word ends in a vowel
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they also use far more glottal stops than americans
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When to pronounce an R in Britain:

Is there an R in the spelling of the word? If so, then no. If not, then yes.
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eston posted...

And they add nonexistent R's if a word ends in a vowel

I sawr that once.
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I pronounce r's. But I do speaks "a bit posh"
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averagejoel posted...

they also use far more glottal stops than americans

im not even comparing to americans

stereotypical (i know not all speak like this there) british english seems like it's just missing a lot of sounds. depending on who speaks it, it's actually rather pleasant sometimes (i find it sounds better on men then women)

it just fascinates me how they just totally ignore an entire phoneme (the r sound). it almost sounds like a child speaking that cannot yet pronounce all the sounds yet.

It's called rhoticity. British English has been predominantly non-rhotic since the late 1700s or so.
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UnholyMudcrab posted...

It's called rhoticity. British English has been predominantly non-rhotic since the late 1700s or so.

Is that why people tell me American English more closely resembles how the Brits used to sound than the Brits actually in the UK?
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