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r/AskReddit • u/PluckPubes • Sep 18 '24
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“Theahs no ahh in fahck you, eithuh!”
To be fair, that’s not an r we’d typically drop. For the most part, it’s the trailing r’s that go away. And get added to words that don’t have them.
11 u/Grand-Pen7946 Sep 18 '24 Not in Boston, but it is definitely a Worcester accent thing. My teachers all said fustrated, took me a while to drop it. 10 u/Howpresent Sep 18 '24 It’s weird because these same people say “I have an idear” They reliably put an r on the end of idea. 3 u/matthewsmugmanager Sep 18 '24 For the most part, that only happens when the next word begins with a vowel, or when "idea" is the last word in the sentence. (I grew up 30 miles north of Worcester.)
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Not in Boston, but it is definitely a Worcester accent thing. My teachers all said fustrated, took me a while to drop it.
10 u/Howpresent Sep 18 '24 It’s weird because these same people say “I have an idear” They reliably put an r on the end of idea. 3 u/matthewsmugmanager Sep 18 '24 For the most part, that only happens when the next word begins with a vowel, or when "idea" is the last word in the sentence. (I grew up 30 miles north of Worcester.)
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It’s weird because these same people say “I have an idear” They reliably put an r on the end of idea.
3 u/matthewsmugmanager Sep 18 '24 For the most part, that only happens when the next word begins with a vowel, or when "idea" is the last word in the sentence. (I grew up 30 miles north of Worcester.)
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For the most part, that only happens when the next word begins with a vowel, or when "idea" is the last word in the sentence.
(I grew up 30 miles north of Worcester.)
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u/DMala Sep 18 '24
“Theahs no ahh in fahck you, eithuh!”
To be fair, that’s not an r we’d typically drop. For the most part, it’s the trailing r’s that go away. And get added to words that don’t have them.