> Daniel Prohaska wrote:
> >
> >
> > Mark,
> >
> > You are partially correct post vocalic Middle English post vocalic /r/ is
> > replaced in English English (most varieties except the rhotic ones),
> > NZ/AUS/SA English and Welsh English by the preceding vowel with
> compensatory
> > lengthening.
>
> When I lived in Wales from from 1968 till 1980 this was _not_ so, except
> along the coastal plain of the southeast from the border to Cardiff,
> where, for example, 'Cardiff' is pronounced [k_hE:dIf].
>
> But elsewhere, i.e. in the larger of Wales, post vocalic /r/ was a
> trilled consonant, usually apically trilled, but the uvular trill was
> found among among some north Walians. As far as I am aware from annual
> visits to the principality nothing much has changed in the 17 years
> since I moved back to south east England.
>
> --
> Ray
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