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Subject: Re: [OM] Rhoticity (pronouncing an r that isn't there Was: University of New Hampshire Bias Free Language Guide
From: ChrisB <ftog@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 1 Aug 2015 16:43:28 +0100
Isn’t that something!  I’d love to hear that accent, and to understand how it 
came about.  I suppose that it might have been a holdover from the emigration 
from Britain or Ireland, but I wonder if there were any other influences.

By the way, Chuck, the real (OK, the original) Taunton is in Somerset, England. 
 I went to school near there and my son and his family now have a house there 
:-)

Chris

> On 1 Aug 2015, at 15:10, Bob Whitmire <fujixbob@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> Yessah!
> 
> --Bob Whitmire
> Certified Neanderthal
> 
> 
> On Sat, Aug 1, 2015 at 9:21 AM, Chuck Norcutt <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> wrote:
> 
>> As in: "Pahk the cah in hahvahd yahd".
>> 
>> Chuck Norcutt
>> 
>> 
>> On 7/30/2015 2:43 PM, Bob Whitmire wrote:
>> 
>>> Come to _New_ England. They'll go r-less all over you. <g>
>>> 
>> 
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