Joke on Liverpudlian speechways

[Paul Johnston]

And you not only get flapping, but there's something called the T-to-
R rule, which can give you a regular (molar) /r/ as a result.  Only
variably in Liverpool, though--usually intervocalic /r/ is a flap there.

Paul Johnston
On Oct 25, 2006, at 4:53 PM, Wilson Gray wrote:

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> Yep, that's right. I caught it only because I've seen "r" and "rr"
> used as makeshift symbols for a flap before, e.g. in Henry Roth's
> "Call It Sleep," in which he writes "Shut up!" as "Sharrup!" IIRC. And
> then there's the BE-speaking character, "Bunifa," on MadTV, who uses
> an actual trill in her catchphrase, "Whurr I do?! Whurr I do?!" i.e.
> "What did I do [wrong]?!"
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> -Wilson
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> On 10/25/06, Beverly Flanigan <flanigan at ohio.edu> wrote:
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>> Ah, I finally got it!  I assume we're talking about flapping
>> here?  Plus
>> the choice of relative pronoun--right?
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>> At 03:10 PM 10/25/2006, you wrote:
>>> Well, the second bloke is correct, you know, though I'd use the
>>> spelling, "whuddle," for BE. ;-)
>>>
>>> -Wilson
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>>> On 10/25/06, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at yahoo.com> wrote:
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>>>> I found this elsewhere.
>>>>
>>>>   It's a riot.
>>>>
>>>>   The following joke was recounted recently on Greater
>>>> Manchester Radio
>>>> (GMR)
>>>>
>>>> Two Liverpudlian young offenders are sharing a cell in Borstal.
>>>> One is
>>>> laboriously writing a letter. He looks up and says "Ay ! Ay !
>>>> How do you
>>>> spell 'Daryl' ?"
>>>>
>>>> 'What you wanna know for ?" says his cell mate. "We don't know
>>>> any c***
>>>> in 'ere called Daryl."
>>>>
>>>> The first one says, "'Cause I want me mam to send us a pair of
>>>> jeans
>>>> Daryl fit me."
>>>>
>>>> "You daft wassock!", says the second. "It's not, 'Daryl' fit me.
>>>> It's
>>>> 'Worral'."
>>>>
>>>>   Ah, those Brits. What they do with our language !
>>>>
>>>>   JL
>>>>
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