Do New-Englanders *add* R's?

[Amy West]

On 3/2/14, 12:00 AM, Automatic digest processor wrote:
> Date:    Sat, 1 Mar 2014 18:03:35 -0500
> From:    "Joel S. Berson"<Berson at ATT.NET>
> Subject: Do New-Englanders*add*  R's?
>
> Heard on a Boston-area radio local news program:
>
> bill-RICK-er
>
> A town north of Boston, spelled Billerica, and in my experience (and
> Wikipedia's) mostly pronounced bill-RICK-uh.
>
> Joel
Yes. Some New England accents do. We call it the "conservation of Rs":
"r"s get dropped from some words and inserted in others. -a final words
like "idea" are often where they get inserted.

---Amy West

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