I was watching an episode of Shakespeare and Hathaway last Saturday, and I thought a character’s name was “Stekla,” until I saw it written out. It was “Steckler.”
Conversely, when I first started watching Doctor Who in the 1980s, I initially assumed that there was a non-rhotic “r” in the name of the evil robotic aliens – that they were “Darleks.” It was only when I saw the species name written out that I realized they were “Daleks.”
This conversation reminds me of a guy I worked with who was from England. I was going on a trip there, and asked him what chocolate I should get. He answered “cadby”
After back and forthing a minute, he finally, with visible effort, said Cadbury, with the “R” vocalized. After that I could hear the r in his original pronunciation, but it was like 1/10 of an R.
On forvo, of the 4 British versions, only one sounds like it has the swallowed R.
Are those of you saying that vase rhymes with Mars British? Because ISTM that would be saying that pink rhymes with hank. In my accent they do, but if I were asked, I would say no
I’m surprised by the high number of voters for the “root”. I had never heard route pronounced as anything but the “out” rhyming sound.
I hear both so often that it doesn’t register to me as a thing one way or the other. I tend to say root. But I but it’s not 100%
Me too. And, while it’s not a hard-and-fast rule, what @SCAdian said matches my general experience:
I snorted.
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I usually say ‘root’ especially when talking about a highway but that box in my house that distributes the internet is a ‘rauter’ – ‘rooter’ sounds like something that cleans out sewer pipes.
Who is allowing teenage boys to eat? Or more to the point, disallowing some other number of calories?
In JFK’s Boston Brahmin accent, Cuba comes out as “Cuber”, with a hard R. I would expect this is something like that.
Grateful Dead: Don’t know a single song by them. Or if I do know one, I didn’t know who was singing.
You people who say route rhymes with root: does it also rhyme with boot?
My college roommate was a self identifying Deadhead. They have some okay stuff, but the rest of the whole Dead culture thing I really don’t get it.
The best thing to come out of the Grateful Dead is that Carlos Santana heard them and said to himself “If they can do it, I can” and started Santana
I really like the Dead but I never followed the culture. Only made it to one concert.
Most of the teenage boys I’ve known got a good bit more than 60 minutes per day of activity. I may not have known a representative selection – many of them were farm kids or farm interns.
It is like the hateful eight became rude nine.
I recently read that there was a study, presumably using cadavers, where they looked for differences between males snd females and discovered that the female small intestine tends to be about 20% longer. Hence, women often eat less than men because they metabolize more. The greater length probably has to do with feeding a fetus.
Come to think of it how I pronounce “route” largely depends on whether it’s a noun or a verb.
“Root” 66.
“Route (rhymes with out)” the traffic through there.
Most of my psychedelic parking lot experiences were at Jimmy Buffett concerts.
Granted, a lot of Dead material is noodling and self-indulgent claptrap, but when they were on and tight - nobody better.
I have no idea how much activity the teenage boys of my acquaintance got. But i know that most of them had “hollow leg syndrome” and were slim.
My 5’10" sixteen year old is an inhuman eating machine, yet only weighs 130 lbs.
As an aside, one of the funniest moments I’ve seen on tv was the episode of Shakespeare and Hathaway where their beloved and devoted assistant of several seasons, Sebastian, appeared to be leaving the show (but ended up not leaving) where Frank (or maybe it was Lu) says, “Well, goodbye Sebastian…whatever your surname is.”
It never dawned on me until then that they’d never used or even mentioned him having any surname on the show!