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> A non-rhotic speaker will say, frinstance "her father" with an "err" sound on "her" and an "a" sound on "father". Perhaps there's a continuum of rhoticity, b
by nollidge 16y ago
> A non-rhotic speaker will say, frinstance "her father" with an "err" sound on "her" and an "a" sound on "father".
Perhaps there's a continuum of rhoticity, but there are definitely dialects that would not pronounce the R in "her".
- fhars 16y agoThat is probably what he meant when he gave his own, strogly non-rhotic pronounciation of "err" as an example for how people might pronounce "her". But without everybody knowing how to read and type IPA, you can't be to sure about anything in discussions about phonetics.