The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #141002   Message #3243027
Posted By: Nancy King
22-Oct-11 - 10:24 AM
Thread Name: Why the 'r' between vowels?
Subject: RE: Why the 'r' between vowels?
In the northeastern US, the "r" sound that gets dropped in one place is often inserted elsewhere, so that an up-to-date parent becomes a "morden fartha."

This compensation sometimes shows up with other sounds as well. My friend Lois says that a teacher she had as a kid insisted on pronouncing her name as "Loyce," and the name of her classmate Joyce as "Jo-iss." Go figure.