the letter "R"? Marker is pronounce Maa-kaahh. Why dont you just get rid of it entirely?
2006-12-11 03:33:30 · 35 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Languages
What you are talking about is the glottal stop or lack of it. English people tend to be lazy in dialect or informal speech and don't bother to sound the last letterof many words. Examples are wha' for what, motha for mother, fatha for father, bucky for bucket, etc and etc. It's just part of the general laziness that is infecting our language. The ludicrous use of test-speak on this site for instance is disgusting.
2006-12-11 03:43:16 · answer #1 · answered by BARROWMAN 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Actually, in the South(at least) the 'r' in marker is pronounced. English (like many other languages) is not phonetic. It has evolved regionally and over time. There wasn't even agreed spelling until printing presses came along and someone thought it would be a good idea to write a dictionary, so a lot of words are spelt as they were pronounced a long time ago.
2006-12-11 03:40:41 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
this is the English and larger extremely the English tabloid media that don't like the French. The Scots and the French get on properly as we formed an alliance, that lasted over one hundred years,hostile to the English. in the course of the Irish issues the French were also their allies and many Irishmen not in elementary words fought interior the French military yet received extreme rank.
2016-11-30 10:38:16 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's only some English accents that dont pronounce R. The rest of the British population do.
2006-12-11 03:43:10 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Britain has many regional accents, which make words sound somewhat different.
Standard English, known often as recieved pronunciation, will pronounce marker as 'mar-kuh'
Other accents might produce:
'Maah-keh' - Liverpool
'Marr-kir' - West Country
'Maw-kah' London
'Mah-Koh' Manchester
So there.
2006-12-11 03:52:02 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Ma is Ma. Mar is Mar. It all sounds the same anyway. Couple of weeks ago I watched Miami Vice, the new film. I lost the plot because I could not understand what the actors were saying, mumble mumble, drone on and on and on.
2006-12-11 03:44:49 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
It depends upon the accent, in the west country the R is voiced more than in the "neutral" or London accents.
It's the same as Americans saying "Congradulations".
2006-12-12 01:59:00 · answer #7 · answered by muppetofkent 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No Marker is pronounced MAR-KER
speak with your teeth in and that will probably answer your question. Or dont live in Essex, Manchester or wherever.
2006-12-11 03:42:04 · answer #8 · answered by rgrahamh2o 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Hey come on! We who are refined know that the R is only a placemarker! It would make no sense for me to write:
My ca is in the ca pak.
My car is in the car park <---looks so much nicer!
Charles "That Cheeky Lad"
Happy Christmas!
2006-12-11 03:41:48 · answer #9 · answered by Charles-CeeJay_UK_ USA/CheekyLad 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
We do pronounce the letter 'r'; just because we don't tend to roll our it like in many other languages, doesn't mean it's not there!!
2006-12-11 05:03:44 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋