Notice: "Withdrawer" in the first instance and "withdraw" in the second instance, one instance of rhotic intrusion sufficient to maintain the flimsy curtain held up between straightforward unjacked speech. And he knows it.
Notice the same thing with, say, Paula Dean pouring on the Southern charm by purposefully mispronouncing "spatuler" in the first instance then correcting on the second instance "spatula" proving to listeners she does know how to pronounce the word without intrusive r and prefers it for clear speech and is just putting us on for fun in all other instances.
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If Troop had made this post, I'd have thought he meant Dave Rudabaugh.
I love that place and that style and those green leather benches! I used to listen to the BBC in Germany (I was living in the former British sector and they piped it in for their troops still stationed there nearby). John Majors was PM then and he used to square off with his emerging opposition.
Then when I visited London a few years later, I got to see the place when they weren't in session.
I have a buddy, consultant, who likes the comedy meme of making fun of people who add "r" sounds where unneeded.
"Boulder Terlit Hobo" was a handle for an Ace of Spades commentator that I told him about who exemplified the point.*
He likes to say "wersh" instead of wash to help bring understanding.
I always resort to the Boston fucks like Kerry saying "ideaer" or just "ide...r" instead of idea.
OOH OOH OOH someone should combine Fritz Lang's M with the who/whom distinction.
Oh shit is that what old Fritz was doing first? I am just getting the joke after many many decades?
Damn.
Typical lib. More interested in the insult - and resultant drah-mer - than the answer to the ostensible question.
That said, Prime Minister's Questions is one of the best reality shows on tv.
Notting ILL.
The best Springsteen song. Great vid.
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