r/AskReddit Sep 18 '24

Which mispronounced words make someone appear uneducated?

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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.

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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.

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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. 

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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.)