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Re:The epic rise and fall of the name Heather by m-i-l on Tuesday September 25, 2018 @11:09AM (#18066926)
I think the "bath" is the long "a" vs short "a" split[0] (usually associated with north of England vs south of England) rather than r insertion. There is however something called the "intrusive r" among "non rhotic" speakers "such as those in most of England and Wales" [1] which I learned about thanks to this recent research, where "r"s are inserted where they don't exist, e.g. "supernova-r-in the sky" and "law-r-and order".

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trap-bath_split

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linking_and_intrusive_R

Re:The epic rise and fall of the name Heather by alistoriv on Tuesday September 25, 2018 @12:28PM (#18067781)
>"such as those in most of England and Wales"

Aren't Welsh dialects generally rhotic?