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But Brits can't pronounce their own words properly half the time, in English! Ask a Brit to pronounce "drawing" - you'll get "drawring" back.

Source: expat living in Britain



I believe it's called the intrusive 'r'. The upside of it is that it makes the following joke work:

What do you call a one-eyed dinosaur? A dyathinkhesawus. Without the intrusive 'r' this joke would not work.


I moaned about this on https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/317198/the-r-sou.... Some good answers to the linked dupe.


Did not know about that discussion. As a "rhotic" person it makes me wince but I accept different accents. In any chat that leans towards getting heavy on this I refer people to The (great) Proclaimers song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=066oSmDRKPA




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