Hold on a sec. Both various southern accents and English ones may be non-rhotic, but they are not particularly at all similar, except in that particular aspect. In fact, even in their non-rhoticity, they are quite unlike. Moreover, that very article demonstraters that non-rhoticity is a trait which occurs in varied populations all across the eastern United States.
I not exactly diasgreeing… but I think your statement here is in need of serious elucidation.
Not only do they add an ‘r’ to replace an ‘a’ (the place is not called ChinER), they replace an ‘r’ with an ‘a’ (morning gov’nah)
Holy Moly!
I never saw that episode.
If you think all the above is odd, steer clear of Bristol, where they don’t have a terminal r but a terminal l - after any indefinite vowel. So Bristolians will talk about Barack Obamal, the President of Americal, as all-American as ice cream sodal, whose forefathers came from Africal, et ceteral, et ceteral. 
And the name “Bristol” itself was originally something like “Brigstowe”.
Strangely enough, almost the opposite happens in London-area accents, with terminating Ls being converted to something like a W or U – “tail” becomes more like “tay-uw”, “goal” becomes “goh-w”, etc.
I heard a lady in the CVS in down city Providence suggest that her grandchild that he ask his grandfather for some ursine candy. “Go get some Gummi Bee-ahs from Popper.”
So, yeah, it’s not just in the UK or the American South that they play fast and loose with those R’s.
With all the explanations of the r and the way it pops up between vowels, I’m surprised there are still people posting to claim that Britsh people add an r even without a following vowel.
Bah, you should listen to people from the West Country - we go out of our way to add several “Rs” to every word. Carrot Crunchers Forever! And don’t forget Bristolians adding “L” to the end of every word with a vowel “Eee took er photo with is cameral dinne”.
I went for years thinking Dr Who’s enemy was the Darleks.
It can also end in a consonant, right?
What was that Mike Meyers character in the tub who was always “drawring” things, that cheeky monkey?
Yeah, and what the above poster wrote about McCartney’s “sawr, them winging”!
Why cain’t y’all tawk like y’posed tew?
Quasi (being a “tongue-in-cheeky monkey”!)
I have been given to understand that it is Appalachia where the dialect is said to resemble Old English.
I know a fellow Arkansan who says, “Obamar” but that is the only R I’ve heard her add.
This is yet more proof that the English invented a language they cannot speak. 
There are vowels round the w sound there.
I don’t know the song, but it’s quite possible that the poster was misremembering, much like the poster who was convinced that Oasis sang about a chanpagne supernover even when it wasn’t followed by a vowel. Or it could be that ‘them’ became ‘em.’
No we don’t. Not unless your only contact with “British” accents (as if such a thing existed) is limited to Movie Cocknies.
Anyway, it’s our language, we invented it, we’ll do whatever we damn well like with it, thank you so very much!
Damn uppity colonialists.
No, McCartney definitely sang it as “sawr”. Link (@ 30 and 35 seconds)
Another especially egregious example is Cliff Richard’s version of Richie Valens’ Oh, Donna, which became “Oh, Donner, oh, Donner…”, although technically I suppose you could say it was followed by a vowell even though there was plenty of a break between the Donnas and the "oh"s to not need an “r” to vacilitate the transition. I think the fact that it’s a woman’s name also makes it sound worse.
A lot of British pop singers, especially in the 50s and 60s, tried to sound more American by stressing Rs, even in places where Americans wouldn’t put them, so maybe that’s what’s going on here. I always notice in early- to mid-period Beatles songs how John Lennon exaggerates his Rs, quite unlike how he would have pronounced the same words in normal speech.
Redneck brits? just seems that way to me
The guys on BBC TV do. I hear Chiner and Cuber all the time for China and Cuba.
I’m not going around saying “Chin-ah”, and if I did people would ask what was wrong with you.
And we say “Jag-you-er” and “Nicker-rag-you-er”, not “Jag-wah”.
I only recently learned Brits pronounce “furore” with three (3) syllables. Just when you thought you knew all of the quirks! (Of course, we spell it “furor,” which better lends itself to two syllables.)
