Surprise

[Laurence Horn]

At 1:15 PM -0500 2/17/09, Alison Murie wrote:
>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".
>AM

Yes indeed, even in the U.S. donkeys really shouldn't be rhoticizing
their hee-haws.

LH

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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
>>Jilin City, China
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