Amazing displays of ignoranceSandettie Light Vessel Automatic tells us: "My dad's friend told us there's no such thing as gravity - it's just the weight of air holding us down". Tell us of times you've been floored by abject stupidity. "Whenever I read the Daily Express" is not a valid answer.
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Scaryduck LIKES EGG, Thu 18 Mar 2010, 16:48)
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Unless your dialect is rhotic(e.g. Welsh, Scottish) in which case you'd just get funny looks.
"Whit dae fuck is a 'searling', Hamish?"
"Nae clue, Fergus."
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shinyshinyscalp less a man, more a way of life, Mon 22 Mar 2010, 17:24,
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OK, but...Do they really pronounce it as "seeeeeeeling"?
I understand the fact that if a rhotic-accented speaker read the text "searling", then they would pronounce it searrrrrling, as they pronounce their mid-word Rs rhotically...
But you know what I mean. I don't know the phonetic symbols, so unfortunately I had to make do with the approximation of phonetic spelling in RP English.
Now, surely no-one except people singing songs actually pronounces "sealing" with a "seeee" sound - including the rhotic-speakers.
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people singing songs.....and those living in East Yorkshire.
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