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Why many native speakers can't pronounce "Nuclear" properly?
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<blockquote data-quote="dzheremi" data-source="post: 77538920" data-attributes="member: 357536"><p>I don't have a copy of Labov, Ash, and Boberg's <em>Atlas of North American English</em> to back this up with (since I never focused on English dialects in my academic studies), but even then I'm pretty sure that any standard reference work which you can find on this topic will mention that non-rhotic dialects (ones where the R is dropped) in North America are pretty much isolated to parts of New England and New York. </p><p></p><p>So in an 'Americanese' context, it is the speakers of non-rhotic dialects who would be seen by the majority as not speaking "proper English".</p><p></p><p>And I refuse to take anything that Australians say about other varieties of English the least bit seriously while it is still considered acceptable in your country for adults who are not speaking to toddlers to use diminutives for everything in day to day speech. No, I'm not having brekkie while watching the telly, and I can't say that I've ever enjoyed a choccy biccy or however you'd say that, because I'm too busy using my adult words like "breakfast", "television", and "chocolate chip cookie". It may take half a second longer to say these things, but it is worth it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="dzheremi, post: 77538920, member: 357536"] I don't have a copy of Labov, Ash, and Boberg's [I]Atlas of North American English[/I] to back this up with (since I never focused on English dialects in my academic studies), but even then I'm pretty sure that any standard reference work which you can find on this topic will mention that non-rhotic dialects (ones where the R is dropped) in North America are pretty much isolated to parts of New England and New York. So in an 'Americanese' context, it is the speakers of non-rhotic dialects who would be seen by the majority as not speaking "proper English". And I refuse to take anything that Australians say about other varieties of English the least bit seriously while it is still considered acceptable in your country for adults who are not speaking to toddlers to use diminutives for everything in day to day speech. No, I'm not having brekkie while watching the telly, and I can't say that I've ever enjoyed a choccy biccy or however you'd say that, because I'm too busy using my adult words like "breakfast", "television", and "chocolate chip cookie". It may take half a second longer to say these things, but it is worth it. [/QUOTE]
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