The Southern R
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The e in pretty, like that in England, English, is gen- erally accepted as being equivalent to i; the pronunciation with e instead of i is rare and sounds affected. But many persons, by retracting the tongue in the formation of the i, modify the quality of this vowel to a perceptible degree. Such is the i-sound that is sometimes heard also in the word Bristol. Pretty, however, shows a more interesting variation still; for this word is the only one in which, so far as I can now recall, r may be ...pronounced in the South before a consonant. In the colloquial speech of not a few cultivated Southerners, the e of pretty sometimes disappears, while the r becomes syllabic ; that is, r is so sonorous that it takes the place of a vowel, giving to pretty a pronunciation which may be roughly indicated by prty. Many persons avoid prty alto- gether; and those who use it are well aware that it is a mark distinctively of easy, careless conversation. What I would empha- size with regard to prty is, that it seems to be a uninue exam- ple of the use of r before a consonant; that this pronunciation actually occurs in the speech of educated people ;and that prty is by no means to be confounded with the vulgar pronunciations which are usuallly represented by such spellings as putty, purty, perty.
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The e in pretty, like that in England, English, is gen- erally accepted as being equivalent to i; the pronunciation with e instead of i is rare and sounds affected. But many persons, by retracting the tongue in the formation of the i, modify the quality of this vowel to a perceptible degree. Such is the i-sound that is sometimes heard also in the word Bristol. Pretty, however, shows a more interesting variation still; for this word is the only one in which, so far as I can now recall, r may be ...pronounced in the South before a consonant. In the colloquial speech of not a few cultivated Southerners, the e of pretty sometimes disappears, while the r becomes syllabic ; that is, r is so sonorous that it takes the place of a vowel, giving to pretty a pronunciation which may be roughly indicated by prty. Many persons avoid prty alto- gether; and those who use it are well aware that it is a mark distinctively of easy, careless conversation. What I would empha- size with regard to prty is, that it seems to be a uninue exam- ple of the use of r before a consonant; that this pronunciation actually occurs in the speech of educated people ;and that prty is by no means to be confounded with the vulgar pronunciations which are usuallly represented by such spellings as putty, purty, perty.
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