Are you a rhotic or non-rhotic speaker?

[Kingpoleon]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhoticity_in_English

Non-Rhotic North American(special snowflake)

[100% pro-life no matter what]

I'm a rhotic speaker.  I also fully have the pin-pen merger and have a partial characteristic of pronouncing "or" as "ar", but not on all things.  Like, I would say "Flar-duh" and "ar-ringe", but I would say "his-tor-ic" and "Flor-ince" (for Florence).

That's what you get when three different places contribute to your speech.  Usually, when I take an accent quiz, it guesses I'm from North Carolina (which does make some sense since my mom's from there), but I've only ever lived in Tennessee and Pennsylvania.  That's why I have three different components of my accent.

[Boobs]

I do not speak. I only listen.

[Antonio the Sixth]

Usually rhotic, but I occasionally drop it at the end of a word.

[Pouring Rain and Blairing Music]

Rhotic

People from Sacramento are really bad about leaving out t’s before vowels. When I say “intercontinental,” it sounds like “innercon’inennal.” Saoirse Ronan talked about about the accent when she was doing interviews after Lady Bird came out.

[dead0man]

rhotic, like all good hearted people

[parochial boy]

In english, non-rhotic. In French, I totally massacre my R's like all good Swiss people

[TML]

I went to elementary school in Syracuse, NY (upstate) and moved to NYC for the first two years of Middle School and Long Island for my third year of Middle School and all of High School. This means I have exposure to both rhotic and non-rhotic accents. Since the region of my elementary school (upstate NY) is rhotic, that's what I try to do, although I can't rule out the possibility of non-rhoticity slipping in from time to time due to my time spent in the NYC area.

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Non-rhotic

[Del Tachi]

More non-rhotic than rhotic (Southern U.S.) 

[KoopaDaQuick 🇵🇸]

Rhotic (Boring Midwestern General American Accent Over Here)

The only interesting thing about my speech is that I have th-fronting, even though it's much more common in British English than in 'Murican English.

[dead0man]

So, when people in non-rhotic places learn the letters...how does that go?
teacher-the next letter is Q...pronounced "que", we don't use it very much, can anyone think of a word that has a Q in it?
kid-Quincy!
teacher-very good, the next letter is R, pronounced "aaa"....

[Kingpoleon]

So, when people in non-rhotic places learn the letters...how does that go?
teacher-the next letter is Q...pronounced "que", we don't use it very much, can anyone think of a word that has a Q in it?
kid-Quincy!
teacher-very good, the next letter is R, pronounced "aaa"....

Listen to JFK - non-rhotic speakers don’t quite say card as cod. Generally, it’s what I call a very weak R - “The greater ahr knowledge increases, the more ahr ignorance is known.” I have met three or four others in the South who are young and non-rhotic, and thus far our universal experience is that it is treated by a speech therapist and seen as a speech impediment. (Although one said it gave him a more distinguishable and distinguished voice.)

[Dr. Arch]

My English is fully rhotic. My Puerto Rican Spanish, ehh, lol.

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

Extremely rhotic: more-rhotic-than-not pronunciations of most words, plus a deliberate cultivation of the intrusive R as an affected regionalism.

[Statilius the Epicurean]

Non-rhotic, standard middle-class southern accent. Rhotic accents are very uncouth to my ears. I think it's a shame that the non-rhotic American accents like Tidewater have died out, they sound lovely.

[afleitch]

I'm Scottish. Rhotic.

[Mr. Smith]

Mostly non-rhotic with the exceptions of words such as "work", "bird", "car", "hard".

Sometimes I even break the post-volic "rule", and I don't try to add an "r" to the end of some words like some do (Ex: "drawing = drawring") just to be extra.

[Antonio the Sixth]

Rhotic accents are very uncouth to my ears.

That's fair. Non-rhotic accents sound posh and pretentious to my ears.

[RINO Tom]

rhotic, like all good hearted people

[Technocracy Timmy]

I’m not Boston, British, or Bernie

[Technocracy Timmy]

Non-rhotic, standard middle-class southern accent. Rhotic accents are very uncouth to my ears. I think it's a shame that the non-rhotic American accents like Tidewater have died out, they sound lovely.

What about this?

[Kingpoleon]

Extremely rhotic: more-rhotic-than-not pronunciations of most words, plus a deliberate cultivation of the intrusive R as an affected regionalism.

Deliberate cultivation of language is... iffy, to me.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

I speak with a soft guttural burr, which is something I can only have picked up from my late Grandad whose voice I liked a lot as a child: it was a distinctive feature of rural dialects in the North East of England, though it is now archaic and getting quite rare, and he was born in a small town in West Durham nearly a century ago. It is not a feature of any other British dialect. Useful for German and French pronunciation, though.

The peculiar part is, that the area I grew up in is also very much burr territory, but of the more usual West of England kind. Neither, of course, have much in common with the really quite peculiar North American way of sounding an 'r'.

[Dr. MB]

Rhotic

People from Sacramento are really bad about leaving out t’s before vowels. When I say “intercontinental,” it sounds like “innercon’inennal.” Saoirse Ronan talked about about the accent when she was doing interviews after Lady Bird came out.

Uh, I don't think that's just a Sacramento thing.