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Q&A Why do some people say "idea-r", "draw-r-ing" and "china-r"?

Focusing on native English speakers from the UK, inserting an r between words is a hyper correction of a phonetic rule in British English; the final r in a word is silent unless followed by a vowel...

posted 7mo ago by Eric Isaac‭  ·  edited 7mo ago by Eric Isaac‭

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#2: Post edited by user avatar Eric Isaac‭ · 2023-10-21T12:41:21Z (7 months ago)
Typo correction, grammatical reformatting, small correction
  • Focusing on native English speakers form the UK, inserting an r between words is a hyper correction of a phonetic rule in British English; the final r in a word is silent unless followed by a vowel. It doesn’t appear to be considered standard, judging by teaching material available for learning English that is provided by the UK government.
  • Concerning all English speakers, you may not be able to generalize a single cause. In answering [this question](https://languages.codidact.com/posts/287840), I provide another plausible reason why a native Mandarin speaker may say _idea-er_ when speaking English, [Erhua](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erhua). English is a language spoken by [over 1 billion people](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_languages_by_total_number_of_speakers) as an L2. Given how many languages influence the phonology that speakers apply to English, it may not be reasonable to assume that the influences acting on 380 million native speakers are those that also govern the verbal habits of the other 1 billion speakers.
  • Focusing on native English speakers from the UK, inserting an r between words is a hyper correction of a phonetic rule in British English; the final r in a word is silent unless followed by a vowel. It doesn’t appear to be considered standard, judging by the teaching material that the UK government provides for learning English.
  • Concerning all English speakers, you may not be able to generalize a single cause. In answering [this question](https://languages.codidact.com/posts/287840), I provided another plausible reason why a native Mandarin speaker may say _idea-er_ when speaking English, [Erhua](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erhua). English is a language spoken by [over 1 billion people](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_languages_by_total_number_of_speakers) as an L2. Given how many languages influence the phonology that speakers apply to English, it may not be reasonable to assume that the influences acting on a subset of the 380 million native speakers are those that also govern the verbal habits of the other 1 billion speakers.
#1: Initial revision by user avatar Eric Isaac‭ · 2023-10-21T01:45:19Z (7 months ago)
Focusing on native English speakers form the UK, inserting an r between words is a hyper correction of a phonetic rule in British English; the final r in a word is silent unless followed by a vowel. It doesn’t appear to be considered standard, judging by teaching material available for learning English that is provided by the UK government.

Concerning all English speakers, you may not be able to generalize a single cause. In answering [this question](https://languages.codidact.com/posts/287840), I provide another plausible reason why a native Mandarin speaker may say _idea-er_ when speaking English,  [Erhua](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erhua). English is a language spoken by [over 1 billion people](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_languages_by_total_number_of_speakers) as an L2. Given how many languages influence the phonology that speakers apply to English, it may not be reasonable to assume that the influences acting on 380 million native speakers are those that also govern the verbal habits of the other 1 billion speakers.