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Do you know why the sound "r" is often skipped in British dialects?

Because they think it's awkward to mention their "r"s in every sentence!

I'm British...

I don't get it...

"r"s = ars = ass
:p

What about Bostonians. We don't say our Ahs either.

You get to be uncomfortable about your "r"s too if you want to.

"r"s = ars = ass
:p
Or, rather, r's = arse, which is surely the point? :)

I'm sorry, thats rubbish

Sven and Ole went out duck hunting, and they worked at it for a couple hours and finally Sven says: "I wonder why aren't we getting any ducks, Ole?"

"I don't know. I wonder if we're throwing the dog high enough."

Jak zaaktywować bazę danych?

"R's" is pronounced arze, not arse.

Dud: I was in the Zoo last week, and I saw this sign saying topical fish this way, so I thought topical fish, I'll go and have a look get some up to the minute commentary on current affairs.

Pete: You thought you'd see a few topical barbs on the state of the world today.

Dud: yeah, but I went in an all I saw was a load of fish floating about, more timeless than topical.

Pete: yeah, I'll tell you what you've done there, you've gone into the tropical fish house, that's tropical rather than topical, I was talking to the Zoo keeper about it, and he was saying that during the winter months, when the gales get up it's quite normal for some of the letters to get blown off. He was saying it's a feature of his winter life, his "R"s blowing off

Dud: *Corpses*

"R's" is pronounced arze, not arse.

So the genitive ending "'s" is pronounced "s" after all words except sounds/letters like "r"? Hmm. I didn't know that. But I was talking about the plural ending "-s", anyway, so what does it matter?

Heheh, arse. :D

How do you get a goth out of a tree?

Cut the rope.

Okay...

It seems like the only truly funny ethnic jokes are about non-white people. The rest are boring.

So the genitive ending "'s" is pronounced "s" after all words except sounds/letters like "r"? Hmm. I didn't know that. But I was talking about the plural ending "-s", anyway, so what does it matter?

I was talking about the plural too. In English, you only pronounce a pluralising "s" as a "s" sound if it follows an unvoiced consonant. After anything else, it's pronounced like a "z".

What matters is that as a British person, reading "r's" didn't sound like "arse", so the joke didnt make sense.

meh...only works with an english accent. or scottish. possibly welsh. just not northern irish

hmm.....maybe I'm being thick here, but I can't think of any words that I wouldn't pronounce the "R" in...

hmm.....maybe I'm being thick here, but I can't think of any words that I wouldn't pronounce the "R" in...

Are you English? Most English people would make the R in arse or car or father silent.

i kinda see where your coming from (and yeah, I am) but it's not like its entirely silent... and I can't see how you could pronounce it to be any less less silent than it is, if you see what I mean...

Are you English? Most English people would make the R in arse or car or father silent.

I'm English, and I don't *think* those r's are silent... maybe softer than others would pronounce them though?

The one in arse certainly isn't silent, heh.