Hi, Alexander!   
   Recently you wrote in a message to Dallas Hinton:   
      
      
    AH> Apart from /w/, your example "wandered" brings up two issues:   
      
    AH> 1) how to pronounce "r" as a medial or final consonant,   
    AH>                         and   
    AH> 2) how to pronounce "- ed" as a suffix.   
      
    AH> I'd say #1 is highly subject to regional variation. As a Canadian I   
    AH> enunciate an "r" wherever I see one in print, but to my ears at   
    AH> least the sound is middle-of-the-road and the same applies WRT the   
    AH> northwestern US. I once had a neighbour who (although he was quite   
    AH> convinced he'd lost his Scottish accent) pronounced my name as if I   
    AH> spelled it "Air-r-rdith". OTOH folks from Someplace Else may often   
    AH> appear to minimize an "r" or ignore it completely.   
      
   What's who I was taught in school. "Car" - sounds like [ka:] In the USSR we   
   were taught British English.   
      
    AH> What puzzles me   
    AH> is how some ex-Brits I know... especially Londoners... add /r/ to   
    AH> the end of words where I don't see one,   
      
   For example?   
      
    AH> in much the same way USAians say "a couple people" as if they're   
    AH> saving the "of" to use in expressions like "a myriad of" and "off   
    AH> of". There are native speakers of English wherever the British   
    AH> Empire extended at one time, and folks from Hither & Yon have   
    AH> preferences of their own.... :-)   
      
    AH> While #2 is less subject to regional variation it appears to me   
    AH> that there are variations based on which consonant sounds native   
    AH> speakers can handle without inserting a vowel when these sounds are   
    AH> lumped together at the end of a word. Most people simply add a   
    AH> final /d/ in words like the following:   
      
    AH>       cleaned, combed, fixed, forked, guessed, longed, managed,   
    AH>       muttered, pitied, played, wandered, wondered, yearned.   
      
   Ah, I see my word. :)   
      
    AH> All of the examples I've been able to come up with so far in which   
    AH> we routinely treat "- ed" as an added syllable involve words ending   
    AH> in "t" or "d":   
      
    AH>         counted, courted, painted, mended, sounded, wounded.   
      
   I vaguely recollect that I was taught such a thing in school, but I forgot it.   
      
      
      
    AH>         * blessed, leaned, learned, spelled   
      
    AH> When these words are used as past participles, you may occasionally   
    AH> see or hear "t" (esp. UK?) in place of the "- ed". Either way is   
    AH> correct in Canada.... :-)   
      
   I have never heard that "to bless" is a irregular verb:   
      
   http://tinyurl.com/ybf7axt3   
   or   
   https://www.learning-english-online.net/grammar/tenses-and-verb-forms/irregular   
   -verbs/list-of-all-irregular-verbs/   
      
   Bye, Ardith!   
   Alexander Koryagin   
   english_tutor 2018   
      
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