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Originally Posted by Lady Fitzgerald
What is it with the English (and certain parts of the US such as New England) putting an "R" in a word that doesn't have one there?
Pronouncing the suffix "ed" as a separate syllable is proper in that it was the way it was originally done (it goes back to before the 16th century and one or two hundred years past then). It is now considered archaic and people who still use that pronounciation are looked upon as rustics (bumpkins on my side of the pond).
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I recall when I was growing up in Central Illinois, we pronounced the word, 'wash' as 'worsh'. That died out some time in the early 1960's. Television is homogenizing language. I don't think that's a good thing, maybe we should all use the language of our youth.