How do you pronounce your ‘r’s towards the ends of words like Shearer, purr, nerd and pore? And what about those in car, bird and her?Chances are, you will likely soften it out so that it sounds more like an elongation of the vowel, rather than the k
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A "strong R" sound at the end of words such as purr, car, bird and her, known as rhoticity, is a linguistic quirk that is now rare among younger people.