horse/hoarse

[A. Vine]

"Aaron E. Drews" wrote:
>
> on 19/4/00 7:44 PM, A. Vine wrote:
>
> > Incidently, in watching the BBC news last night, I was cracking up at the
> > weatherman's pronunciation of "Europe", essentially it came out "yurp".
> >
>
> With an [r] and everything?
>

Well, with an /r/, but not everything.  I'm trying to remember, but I'm pretty
sure the rhoticization was there, because it sounds so similar to something my
Bristol-born husband would say to his father in greeting.  The weatherman
sounded a lot like Eric Idle, which made it hard to keep a straight face during
the forecast anyway.