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Brits and Ozzies...help me out. When you say a word that ends with an 'a' why do you say 'er' at the end?

Example: California becomes Californyer, tuna becomes tuner. Also when a word ends with an 'r', yours becomes 'eh' or 'uh. Example: Butter becomes buttuh and rather becomes ratheh.

Posted - March 24, 2019
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  • 53531


    (Ozzies Aussies) 
      March 24, 2019 1:40 PM MDT
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  • 44660
    Ozzies...slang. I saw Slarti use it.
      March 24, 2019 1:42 PM MDT
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  • 53531


      There are native speakers of every language who misspell, misuse, and/or mispronounce words in their own languages.
    ~
      March 24, 2019 1:47 PM MDT
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  • 44660
    Indeed...lot's of examples hear.
      March 24, 2019 1:52 PM MDT
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  • 53531

    thier U gough agin ;argewing width Mee 
      March 24, 2019 1:55 PM MDT
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  • 44660
    Now if I can just get somebody to answer the darn question. I really want to know. Where the heck is NJ?
      March 24, 2019 2:00 PM MDT
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  • Always wondered that myself.  Bostonians do it too. Sounds retarded. This post was edited by Benedict Arnold at March 25, 2019 4:49 PM MDT
      March 24, 2019 2:17 PM MDT
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  • Bostonians say..."retahded."
      March 24, 2019 3:56 PM MDT
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  • They sure do.. You should hear one talk after a bottle of wine by the bridge.
      March 24, 2019 7:41 PM MDT
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  • Trust me.  I got someone with a close enough accent, that I get to listen to after bottles of wine, quite often.  Thank you very much.  LOL!  To this southern boy his accent could seem retahded, but I think he's Wicked pissah!  Could we possibly be referring to the same old goat?
      March 24, 2019 7:54 PM MDT
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  • Not for Nuttin, Youz guyz. Youz guys uh pissin me off  
    This post was edited by Benedict Arnold at March 25, 2019 4:49 PM MDT
      March 24, 2019 7:59 PM MDT
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  • Just look at the way he sucks on that bottle!  Wow!  A lush and a Ho!  LOL!
      March 24, 2019 8:01 PM MDT
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  • Sucking is my forte'  
    You know you like it
      March 24, 2019 8:04 PM MDT
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  • 1305
    We just put emphasis on different parts of the words, sometimes we drop vowels depending on where a vowel is.  By the way where is your h in herbs? Did you lose them in the basil? :)

    It's not just the words you've mentioned either...


    https://www.angmohdan.com/22-words-with-british-and-american-pronunciations-that-may-confuse-you/



      March 24, 2019 3:43 PM MDT
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  • 44660
    Dang. I already sound like Prince Charles.
      March 24, 2019 3:54 PM MDT
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  • 14795
    You need serious help than Ellie...who on earth would want to talk like that twerp :( 
      March 25, 2019 5:50 PM MDT
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  • 1305
    LOL!!
      March 26, 2019 1:23 PM MDT
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  • 1305

    I do hope not Element that would do nothing for an British woman's libido.  :D
      March 26, 2019 1:31 PM MDT
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  • I often hear people in the Northeastern states do that as well.  They seem to drop the "r" when it is present and insert it when it is not.

    Park becomes pahk.  yard becomes yahd.

    idea becomes ideer.  etc...
      March 24, 2019 3:48 PM MDT
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  • 44660
    Yeah, my mother was from Maine. I guess that's why we call that region 'New England'.
      March 24, 2019 3:56 PM MDT
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  • 6988
    Big Paul from American Chopper does it. He is from New Yark.
      March 24, 2019 6:00 PM MDT
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  • 6023
    Allegedly, the Disney character Goofy got his accent from folks in Washington state.
    They tend to add R ... Warshington.  Doing the "warsh" instead of "wash".
    But they don't do it all the time ... just mainly on words that start with "wa".  So it's really annoying.  LOL
      March 25, 2019 11:18 AM MDT
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  • 10026
    I applaud you for asking such a pertinent question. It seems like your tongue is all the way around it already.
    I think we became tongue-tied, tongue-tickled, or tongue-lazy.

    This post was edited by Merlin at March 25, 2019 5:14 PM MDT
      March 25, 2019 4:55 PM MDT
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  • 44660
    Thank you. My tongue has done lots of things.
      March 25, 2019 5:15 PM MDT
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