RE: UK Conventions

["Anthony Kelly" <alkelly71 -at- hotmail -dot- com>]

"So British sounds like the silent R's after E's and A's (Robber,
Darling, Barter = Robba, Dahling, Bahta) and the R sound after a final A
are echoes of that Germanic linguistic heritage. In modern German, you
hear the same phenomenon with these same sound combinations (Bier [Beer]
= Beeah, Martin = Mahtin)."

Yet this use of "ar" is mainly found in the South and midlands, in the North 
we say "Bath" not "Barth" (as they do in the South). In the North we use 
many old Anglo-saxon and Viking words, more so than the South I would think, 
so I'm not entirely convinced by the German argument. After all, the 
language has evolved a lot since then (primarily by the French).

The "ar" sound also seems to be used by the middle-classes an upper classes 
(in so-called RP), which adds a different factor to it.

Anthony

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