• aidan@lemmy.world
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        9 months ago

        Most English people have a non-rhotic accent, meaning not pronouncing the r after vowels so words like “better” become “betta”.

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          9 months ago

          This one seems like it’s very accent-dependent. A cockney geezer will definitely say “be’aah”, but a geordie would say "be’eh and someone from the west country would say “betterrrr”. I think the American pronunciation makes the R sound a lot longer (you can tell I don’t know all the property linguistics words!) so anything shorter probably sounds weird to you.

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            9 months ago

            I’m sure it’s definitely regional, just like accents in the US. But generally in England at least it’s non-rhotic. I know Scotland is different, maybe Wales too