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Anonymous Posted 11 years ago
Vocabulary

Difficulty ...

Difficulty in pronouncing 'r', which can be easily spotted when someone speaking eg Spanish or Italian?
What do you call it, please?
  

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It is unclear whether the question concerns the person's difficulty or the dialectal differences between parts of the world. In England, the letter "r" in words like "river, Peter, heart, and sensor" is often not audible; whereas in Scotland it may be evident in what we might call 'rolling one's r's'. In Spanish, there are two pronunciations of the letter "r" - called "r" and "r con r".

— Wilpeter

  • It is unclear whether the question concerns the person's difficulty or the dialectal differences between parts of the world.
  • In England, the letter "r" in words like "river, Peter, heart, and sensor" is often not audible; whereas in Scotland it may be evident in what we might call 'rolling one's r's'.
  • In Spanish, there are two pronunciations of the letter "r" - called "r" and "r con r".
  • Both are clearly heard, but the second is 'rolled'.
  • Is this the purpose of the question?
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It is unclear whether the question concerns the person's difficulty or the dialectal differences between parts of the world. In England, the letter "r" in words like "river, Peter, heart, and sensor" is often not audible; whereas in Scotland it may be evident in what we might call 'rolling one's r's'.
In Spanish, there are two pronunciations of the letter "r" - called "r" and "r con r". Both
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Hi I found similar idea from en.wikipedia.org rhotacism.
Do you know the casual term/slang/everyday word for rhotacism or maybe an adjective for it.
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No, I had not previously encountered the word. I did look it up and want to clarify that my explanation was of the natural uses and ability to speak normally; but where (because of childhood development and exposure) people do not pronounce the middle or terminal "r" in certain words. They do not have a handicap, merely a natural tendency not to pronounce it.
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