Interesting Videos Thread

[XanBcoo]

Don't most Brits pronounce words that end in "a" with an "ar" sound? So saying "ni**a" will end up sounding like the actual word.

I'm not really sure I understand your question, but it depends on the accent. RP/Queen's English deletes all Rs unless they are followed by a vowel but other accents pronounce the R. Yorkshire, Bristol, and Somerset accents, for example.

Somerset accent

Here's a full distribution of rhotic and non-rhotic English accents

http://www.npr.org/blogs/krulwich/20...ry?sc=fb&cc=fp

This is pretty interesting. I wonder if it works with people whose languages have no differentiation between 'b' and 'f'.

I'm curious to see how Spanish speakers would interpret it. Most Spanish dialects do not differentiate between b and v.

Edit: I vote we make one big "Video" megathread.
Edit 2: I haven't had a Linguistics Boner this hard since I graduated from college.