If you have a rhotic accent, you pronounce the /r/ sound whenever the letter 'r' appears in a word, like in 'learn', 'better' and 'perfect'. North American accents are usually rhotic, and other ...

Many also point out the absence of the letter "r" in words like "three," which is common to both the Jamaican accent and some parts of Ireland. As much as a quarter of Jamaicans claim Irish ...