Don't know if you're familiar with a Long Island (basically: Boston-lite) accent but if so, you know that we don't (traditionally) say the "r" in anything (Bostoners are even worse about this, more pronounced, than LIers). So a LIer might say cahrt, a Bostoner might say caaht, and the rest of the country would say car-t (like car, but with a t on the end - *except* upstate New Yorkers, who put hard rs where there weren't any to begin with, so you get cart like how you'd say Bart!).
Just forex.
Kind of why I love language (especially English) and dialects (especially USian); there can be so much variation.
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Date: 2019-04-26 05:36 am (UTC)From:Don't know if you're familiar with a Long Island (basically: Boston-lite) accent but if so, you know that we don't (traditionally) say the "r" in anything (Bostoners are even worse about this, more pronounced, than LIers). So a LIer might say cahrt, a Bostoner might say caaht, and the rest of the country would say car-t (like car, but with a t on the end - *except* upstate New Yorkers, who put hard rs where there weren't any to begin with, so you get cart like how you'd say Bart!).
Just forex.
Kind of why I love language (especially English) and dialects (especially USian); there can be so much variation.