ThunderComplex@lemmy.today to badposting@hexbear.net · 3 months agoThe American spelling of flour should be flormessage-squaremessage-square27fedilinkarrow-up144file-text
arrow-up144message-squareThe American spelling of flour should be florThunderComplex@lemmy.today to badposting@hexbear.net · 3 months agomessage-square27fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareTheLepidopterists [he/him]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·3 months agoI don’t know how I got so in my head that I convinced myself that they don’t use schwas in American accents to honestly
minus-squaregobble_ghoul [he/him]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·3 months 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.
I don’t know how I got so in my head that I convinced myself that they don’t use schwas in American accents to honestly
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.