The Cellar - Spelling is ruining the English language

Re "Favour:"

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Originally Posted by DanaC (Post 560342)

. . .Mostly I think the last syllable is shortened and pronounced with the schwa. What vowel sounds lives inside that shwa is very different town to town. *smiles* For me it's more of an uh sound Fav-uh (which is how it's said in Bolton) but if I was a full on Manc, I might say it as more of an short 'o' sound. Fav-o'. The 'r' is not pronounced. In Liverpool, it ends with more of an 'eh' sound (quite slight). Fav'eh. Again, the 'r' isn't pronounced.

The American pronunciation, prevalent everywhere but New England which goes like "fav-ah," would sure stick out enough to attract curious looks all down the bar: "Fav-rrr." The vowel gets almost entirely subsumed into the voiced consonant, a reflection of the R-effect.