ThunderComplex@lemmy.today to badposting@hexbear.net · 19 days agoThe American spelling of flour should be flormessage-squaremessage-square27linkfedilinkarrow-up144arrow-down10file-text
arrow-up144arrow-down1message-squareThe American spelling of flour should be florThunderComplex@lemmy.today to badposting@hexbear.net · 19 days agomessage-square27linkfedilinkfile-text
minus-squaregobble_ghoul [he/him]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·18 days agoMaybe because in American accents, most of the schwas are R-colo(u)red or literally a syllabic /r/, while in most British accents they are plain schwas or schwa with an /r/ inserted after if the next sound is a vowel as in Panda-r-Express.
Maybe because in American accents, most of the schwas are R-colo(u)red or literally a syllabic /r/, while in most British accents they are plain schwas or schwa with an /r/ inserted after if the next sound is a vowel as in Panda-r-Express.