Do Bostonians Pronounce R?

Good luck findin' pahkin' anywhere neeah Hah-vid Yahd. Actually, Bostonians pronounce the 'r' when it comes before a vowel, though they do it softly. Listen carefully, and you'll hear a Bostonian say, 'pahk the cahr in Hah-vahd yahd. ' But if he had more than one vehicle, he would 'pahk the cahs in Hah-vahd yahd.

Why do New Englanders not pronounce r?

In New England and other dialects of English, the r sound of words like car or poor can be dropped. In these words, the r is not pronounced, so that these words sound like "cah" and "po'." However, not all r sounds can be dropped. ... List A gives words where the r may be DROPPED.

Why do Bostonians drop their r?

"In the evolution of R-less pronunciation, Boston led the English-speaking world," Richard Bailey of the University of Michigan writes in 2012's "Speaking American: A History of English in the United States." Dropping Rs was a feature of the language in rustic Britain, Bailey writes, and the more settlers that came to ...