I'm terribly sorry - saying the letter 'r' in English

English Sound Building - British Pronunciation

10/03/22 • 18 min

Welcome to season 5 of English Sound Building! Today is the first of a few episodes this season looking at the /r/ sound. In particular, this episode considers words where the written letter ‘r’ is always pronounced, and practises the /r/ sound in minimal pairs with /l/ and /w/.

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10/03/22 • 18 min

English Sound Building - British Pronunciation - I'm terribly sorry - saying the letter 'r' in English

Transcript

So, today we’re looking at a consonant sound which we have never spoken about before, but it’s high time we did: /r/. So, you’ll hear that I make the ‘standard’ English-from-England /r/ as a postalveolar approximant... meaning that I make it just behind the alveolar ridge (as regular listeners will know by now, that’s the hard gummy bit behind your upper front teeth), and by narrowing, but not closing the flow of air. To narrow the flow, I bring my lower jaw up, and I hold tension

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