is the 'or' in 'horrible' an r-controled vowel?

CharmYouso...is 'horrible' pronounced as the 'ar' in 'party'? or 'a' as in 'father' ?

party

that's a little bit confusing..bcz the 'er' as in 'terrible' is NOT an r controled vowel..which means..it's a flat e sound, not linked with r, you don't curl your tone..so it's like 'e' in 'let' ...not the schwa+r sound like 'er' as in 'her'..

CharmYouthe 'er' as in 'terrible' is NOT an r controled vowel

It is in my dialect. Not like "her", but it isn't a plain short "e", either.

Really?? how do you pronounce terrible?? the 'er' as in 'her'?? that's really weird..
could you please listen to the recording of mine of two ways of saying terrible??

No. I said it is not like "her".

CharmYou'horrible' is pronunced as ho - ri - ble or hor - ri - ble... the difference is ..whether the o is linked with r ...

This varies from region to region. You can safely pronounce it either way.

In some varieties of English, the vowel is not linked with the 'r' (as you put it) if the 'r' sound is expressed as a double-r ("rr"), as in 'arrow',

In British English the first vowel in 'horrible' is pronounced the same way as the vowel in 'hot'. This is a different phoneme from the first vowel in 'party' or 'father'. For most speakers of standard BrE, the r in 'party' is not pronounced at all.

The word 'horrible' falls under the category of words called CLOTH lexical set + r. In general AmE, it is r-colored.

Here are examples from J.C Wells Accents of English, collected by Eric Armstrong:

origin, Oregon, oratory, orator, orange, authority,
borrow, categorical, correlate, coroner, coral,
florid, Florida, florist, florin, historic(al ),
horrid, horribl