Jonathan Knibb scripsit:
> My mother, a basically RP speaker raised in Birmingham (England), often uses
> an alveolar flap for intervocalic /r/ in careful speech, unusual AFAIK in
> near-RP accents.
Wasn't that a feature of conservative RP some decades back?
> (Another example would be my use of short [a], the vowel I use in Ger.
> 'Mann', in words such as 'grass', which traditionally alternate between [A:]
> and [ae-ligature] - although I think I did this as a child, before becoming
> phonetically savvy.)
How Bostonian!
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