Interesting. And your name would be pronounced like your neice here in Boston, maybe with the addition of 'wicked' As in, "Did you see Bahbi's drawerings? They're wicken pissah" Or there abouts ;)
My name is about as original as A Brown Dog. You get what the label reads :)
yeah... R's are important here. :) My niece will have to get her tongue clipped. Should have done it when she was a baby but they kept thinking maybe it will be fine etc. Right now it doesn't matter, since shes little, but with time you stick out.
Tongue clipped? Is that really a surgery?
It is a very common thing to do here. As said..R's matter here. Sometimes speech and language therapist can help with streching that frenulum...there are some excercises ment to do that. My niece does em (well sort of lol).
That's interesting. I've heard a few English speakers who can't pronounce R's. Jonothan Ross (ironically enough) is a British celebrity/comedian/presenter who seems to embrace his speech impediment. But yeah, in a culture where pronouncing R's is critical, I can see why people would resort to surgery!
...we have one politician...more or less the only media person i know here who can't pronounce R's - if the joke aint sad enough he has an R in his name and surname too. People will be people...hes a laughing stock and noone takes him seriously. There are memes made....example:
What he does is say H instead of the R's...most common one here is usually L or J (with children)...example: Barbara is Balbala or Bajbaja.
He doesn't seem to be too bothered with it. Bad publicity is still better then 0 publicity. But in general ... we are social creatures and more or less we have to talk daily to other people. If one cut can help you with that - to not stand out and not be hidranced, why bother.