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Re:Nobody Pronounces the 'B' in 'Debt' by brabel on Tuesday January 04, 2022 @10:29AM (#29795760)
According to this[1], that's only in the USA... British English appears to drop the 'r' entirely (that's why I never hear it as I've lived in Europe and Australia)... and the American pronounciation seems so odd, is there any other word where the 'r' and the vowel are swapped like that? I know only one in British/Australian with "centre" being pronounced "center", but can't think of any others.

[1] https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/iron

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Re:Nobody Pronounces the 'B' in 'Debt' by CRConrad on Tuesday January 04, 2022 @12:50PM (#29797588)
> British English appears to drop the 'r' entirely

Yeah, but the Brits make up for that by stuffing a lot of extraneous 'r's in between other words.

(TBF, that's a kind of sensible simplification of pronunciation: it's used when one word ends and the next starts with a wovel, to ease the transition.)

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