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Their source is linguistic history. The English decided that the letter R only exists if it’s surrounded by vowels in the late 18th/ early 19th century.
Simply not true, nonsense made up by a journalist when they had some column inches to fill.
Their “source” was the way Bostonians pronounce one single word
Their source is linguistic history. The English decided that the letter R only exists if it’s surrounded by vowels in the late 18th/ early 19th century.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhoticity_in_English