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Why don't we voice the first R in "surprise"? (slrpnk.net)
submitted 6 months ago by to c/nostupidquestions@lemmy.ca
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What distinguishes it from the R is "surplus", for example? In both cases it's followed by a P and another semiglide.

Apologies if this pronunciation is regional to the Western Hemisphere, but I'm very curious regardless.

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[โ€“] 9 points 6 months ago

of course your accent may vary but in mine there's a faint r in surprise. in a supple surprise surplus, surprise is closer to supple than it is to surplus but it's there

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