Surprise

[Alison Murie]

I've been noticing a strong tendency among (otherwise rhotic)
newsreaders & others on radio & tv to slight the first r in
"forward."  I probably do this myself in rapid speech, though in
deliberate or self-conscious  speech I would definitely sound the r.
My own rhoticity is so imbedded that I have a hard time pronouncing,
for instance, "Eeyore" as it was probably intended :"Eeyaw".
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On Feb 16, 2009, at 11:07 AM, Randy Alexander wrote:

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> 1. Does anyone with a rhotic dialect rhoticize the first "r" in
> "surprise" (I don't).
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> 2. Does anyone know of any other words that in your rhotic dialect
> that have an unrhoticized postvocalic "r"?
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> Randy Alexander
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