Do New-Englanders *add* R's?

[Joel S. Berson]

At 3/1/2014 08:35 PM, Ben Zimmer wrote:
>Meant to mention: what makes Siegel hyper-rhotic is the presence of
>/-r/ in pre-consonantal or utterance-final positions. Otherwise it
>would just be plain-old intrusive /r/.

I regret that I did not record what my apparently hyper radio speaker
uttered after "Billericar".  My perhaps unreliable recollection is
that it may have been utterance-final, of the form "[something of
sufficient interest to radio listeners happened] in
Billericar."   Perhaps on a subject that everyone in New England is
interested in -- the weather.

Joel

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