I’ve gotten so used to UK accents that the only remaining way I can tell if someone is American is rhoticity
October 25, 2026 at 12:00 PM
I’ve gotten so used to UK accents that the only remaining way I can tell if someone is American is rhoticity
That's one of the cases where American English retained an older pronunciation that British English later changed. Much like rhoticity and, as it turns out, "herb" (which has the same 'h' as "hour" and "heiress").
October 27, 2026 at 9:21 PM
That's one of the cases where American English retained an older pronunciation that British English later changed. Much like rhoticity and, as it turns out, "herb" (which has the same 'h' as "hour" and "heiress").
west country is a mindfuck because it sounded vaguely american for that rhoticity
October 26, 2026 at 5:57 AM
west country is a mindfuck because it sounded vaguely american for that rhoticity
The weird claim that the US has preserved the ’original British accent’ because of rhoticity has two big problems aside from the fact there has never been a singular ‘British’ accent throughout these isles. Those two problems being Australia and New Zealand.
October 25, 2026 at 7:39 PM
The weird claim that the US has preserved the ’original British accent’ because of rhoticity has two big problems aside from the fact there has never been a singular ‘British’ accent throughout these isles. Those two problems being Australia and New Zealand.
This touches on the r issues: www.journal-labphon.org/article/id/1...
A new perspective on the development of Quebec French rhotic vowels
Quebec French is reportedly developing rhoticity, with low F3 resulting from a bunched or retroflexed tongue (like English /ɚ/), in some or all of the front mid rounded vowels /ø, œ, œ̃ /. The source ...
www.journal-labphon.org
October 22, 2026 at 3:26 AM
This touches on the r issues: www.journal-labphon.org/article/id/1...
"fit right" in her mouth, the way everyone around speaks it. Her way lets her drop tricky sounds
(non-rhoticity), smudge what she needs together, and still be generally understood.
(non-rhoticity), smudge what she needs together, and still be generally understood.
October 20, 2026 at 5:48 PM
"fit right" in her mouth, the way everyone around speaks it. Her way lets her drop tricky sounds
(non-rhoticity), smudge what she needs together, and still be generally understood.
(non-rhoticity), smudge what she needs together, and still be generally understood.
in practice, compared to the modern RP-adjacent accents of much of the main cast, I imagine Sophus sounds literally Shakespearean...in that his accent retains many Early Modern English pronunciations/its rhoticity/etc. maybe even in certain words pre-Great Vowel Shift vowels...
October 20, 2026 at 7:30 PM
in practice, compared to the modern RP-adjacent accents of much of the main cast, I imagine Sophus sounds literally Shakespearean...in that his accent retains many Early Modern English pronunciations/its rhoticity/etc. maybe even in certain words pre-Great Vowel Shift vowels...
Curious what the American Cornwall or Devon (can't remember which...) is.
Guessing... Maine? Wacky, scenic, fancy people from the city vacation there, has a funny accent with the opposite rhoticity of the general national dialect that every single actor in the country cannot wait to do.
Guessing... Maine? Wacky, scenic, fancy people from the city vacation there, has a funny accent with the opposite rhoticity of the general national dialect that every single actor in the country cannot wait to do.
October 15, 2026 at 1:58 PM
Curious what the American Cornwall or Devon (can't remember which...) is.
Guessing... Maine? Wacky, scenic, fancy people from the city vacation there, has a funny accent with the opposite rhoticity of the general national dialect that every single actor in the country cannot wait to do.
Guessing... Maine? Wacky, scenic, fancy people from the city vacation there, has a funny accent with the opposite rhoticity of the general national dialect that every single actor in the country cannot wait to do.
rhoticity chickern
October 4, 2026 at 8:13 PM
rhoticity chickern
Telling an American that the rhoticity in old English thing only really applies to RP like telling a kid Santa isn't real
October 5, 2026 at 4:56 AM
Telling an American that the rhoticity in old English thing only really applies to RP like telling a kid Santa isn't real
I just watched a half hour video on rhoticity in Lancashire specifically Blackburn. I am a wild paRty
October 5, 2026 at 1:04 AM
I just watched a half hour video on rhoticity in Lancashire specifically Blackburn. I am a wild paRty
Do americans *actually* think its hot when brits start losing their accents (eg, rhotic pronunciation)?
I have a sample size of 3 now and need to collect more information before I confirm the existence of accent-corruption being a thing.
If true, scary.
I have a sample size of 3 now and need to collect more information before I confirm the existence of accent-corruption being a thing.
If true, scary.
Rhoticity in English - Wikipedia
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September 29, 2026 at 6:49 PM
Do americans *actually* think its hot when brits start losing their accents (eg, rhotic pronunciation)?
I have a sample size of 3 now and need to collect more information before I confirm the existence of accent-corruption being a thing.
If true, scary.
I have a sample size of 3 now and need to collect more information before I confirm the existence of accent-corruption being a thing.
If true, scary.
i just realized it's also wild that rhoticity has less /r/ sounds than rotisserie which is essentially the [-rhotic] here...
September 28, 2026 at 5:40 AM
i just realized it's also wild that rhoticity has less /r/ sounds than rotisserie which is essentially the [-rhotic] here...
NEW ON FIRSTVIEW
"Beyond the gender binary: Variation and the social meaning of rhoticity in Nigerian English" by PraiseGod Aminu
doi.org/10.1017/S004...
#AfricanLanguages #Colonialism #Coloniality #GenderInAfrica #NigerianCrossdressers #NigerianEnglish #Rhoticity #Stance #Variation
"Beyond the gender binary: Variation and the social meaning of rhoticity in Nigerian English" by PraiseGod Aminu
doi.org/10.1017/S004...
#AfricanLanguages #Colonialism #Coloniality #GenderInAfrica #NigerianCrossdressers #NigerianEnglish #Rhoticity #Stance #Variation
Beyond the gender binary: Variation and the social meaning of rhoticity in Nigerian English | Language in Society | Cambridge Core
Beyond the gender binary: Variation and the social meaning of rhoticity in Nigerian English
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September 14, 2026 at 11:41 AM
NEW ON FIRSTVIEW
"Beyond the gender binary: Variation and the social meaning of rhoticity in Nigerian English" by PraiseGod Aminu
doi.org/10.1017/S004...
#AfricanLanguages #Colonialism #Coloniality #GenderInAfrica #NigerianCrossdressers #NigerianEnglish #Rhoticity #Stance #Variation
"Beyond the gender binary: Variation and the social meaning of rhoticity in Nigerian English" by PraiseGod Aminu
doi.org/10.1017/S004...
#AfricanLanguages #Colonialism #Coloniality #GenderInAfrica #NigerianCrossdressers #NigerianEnglish #Rhoticity #Stance #Variation
You're getting somewhere, but boy howdy that's a mean one. It's clearly derived from a pre-Finnish tribal language, and those things do fun stuff like encoding meaning in rhoticity, in pauses/whitespace, and have anti-meanings. As well as just not translating cleanly.
September 9, 2026 at 8:48 AM
You're getting somewhere, but boy howdy that's a mean one. It's clearly derived from a pre-Finnish tribal language, and those things do fun stuff like encoding meaning in rhoticity, in pauses/whitespace, and have anti-meanings. As well as just not translating cleanly.
Had a laugh, but your post sent me down a rabbit hole looking into rhoticity (and pockets of non-rhoticity) in NS. My Toronto family gets a kick out of me pronouncing words like "car", because I've somehow taken on the extra-heavy rhoticity of my Cape Breton cousins. I'm a pirate at heart, I guess.🏴☠️
September 6, 2026 at 1:34 AM
Had a laugh, but your post sent me down a rabbit hole looking into rhoticity (and pockets of non-rhoticity) in NS. My Toronto family gets a kick out of me pronouncing words like "car", because I've somehow taken on the extra-heavy rhoticity of my Cape Breton cousins. I'm a pirate at heart, I guess.🏴☠️
I also don't do "non-read" commercial reads well for a few reasons, but one I didn't expect was that they tend to dredge up my habituated "Gotta Americanize more in the relaxed diction or people won't understand you"—which eventually pulls me into Agent Smith-adjacent hyper-rhoticity. It's a mess! 😂
September 6, 2026 at 12:00 AM
I also don't do "non-read" commercial reads well for a few reasons, but one I didn't expect was that they tend to dredge up my habituated "Gotta Americanize more in the relaxed diction or people won't understand you"—which eventually pulls me into Agent Smith-adjacent hyper-rhoticity. It's a mess! 😂
Actually I cannot distinguish anything between any western MA and CT. Though in very eastern CT you occasionally still hear some non-rhoticity.
September 5, 2026 at 2:07 AM
Actually I cannot distinguish anything between any western MA and CT. Though in very eastern CT you occasionally still hear some non-rhoticity.
Doing a rhoticity joke immediately after establishing that I have a non-rhotic accent. Imagine the pronunciation there. I think it technically qualifies as a summoning incantation for a Great Old One
September 4, 2026 at 7:08 PM
Doing a rhoticity joke immediately after establishing that I have a non-rhotic accent. Imagine the pronunciation there. I think it technically qualifies as a summoning incantation for a Great Old One
Zero questions about rhoticity.
September 4, 2026 at 7:23 PM
Zero questions about rhoticity.
I’m not even remotely American, but I still decided to do this for fun. Growing up, I attended British schools and picked up a very distinctive accent as a result. I guess this graph kind of makes sense as New England accents share phonetical similarities (e.g. non-rhoticity) with certain UK accents
September 5, 2026 at 3:18 AM
I’m not even remotely American, but I still decided to do this for fun. Growing up, I attended British schools and picked up a very distinctive accent as a result. I guess this graph kind of makes sense as New England accents share phonetical similarities (e.g. non-rhoticity) with certain UK accents
It's a little weird that there wasn't even a single question about dropping "r"s/rhoticity.
They could've shaved about 5 questions off by just asking "park the car" or "pahk the cah."
They could've shaved about 5 questions off by just asking "park the car" or "pahk the cah."
September 4, 2026 at 1:57 PM
It's a little weird that there wasn't even a single question about dropping "r"s/rhoticity.
They could've shaved about 5 questions off by just asking "park the car" or "pahk the cah."
They could've shaved about 5 questions off by just asking "park the car" or "pahk the cah."
It IS funny they think I speak like a New Yorker because their dialect famously share a trait with RP English; the non-rhoticity.
September 4, 2026 at 4:15 PM
It IS funny they think I speak like a New Yorker because their dialect famously share a trait with RP English; the non-rhoticity.
But you also get some accent features that you'd never hear in the South, but aren't tested for here. Most famously, how words ending in '-out' are pronounced, but also words ending in '-o' having a very strong, rounded, non-diphtongued "oh" sound. And less rhoticity in general probably.
September 4, 2026 at 2:42 PM
But you also get some accent features that you'd never hear in the South, but aren't tested for here. Most famously, how words ending in '-out' are pronounced, but also words ending in '-o' having a very strong, rounded, non-diphtongued "oh" sound. And less rhoticity in general probably.