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Originally Posted by silverraven
I always enjoy the random sticking in of 'R' in words by people from different areas. My mother in law is from Long Island, NY. So any word that ends with an A has a R stuck at the end. So Linder instead of Linda, Donner instead of Donna.
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Originally Posted by Froide
Take it from this native Long Islander - your mother-in-law's speech pattern is not typical of either Long Island or of the NY Metro area, although (in my various wanderings) I have encountered people who speak that way and wondered where they picked it up. I wonder where HER parents are from.
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Perhaps northern New England? I'm from Maine and grew up hearing people adding Rs at the end of words that end with an A; however, that usually only occurs when the word ending in A is followed by a word that starts with a vowel. So we'd say "I talked to Donna" but add the R when saying something like "Donner and I talked."