English Dictionary

hard r

noun

(phonetics, phonology, informal) a rhotic sound which is emphatic or strongly enunciated; in English accents especially a postvocalic consonantal r, as distinguished from its absence in a nonrhotic accent or from an R-coloured vowel

He found it hard to pronounce the word correctly.

意味（1）

(phonetics, phonology, informal) a rhotic sound which is emphatic or strongly enunciated; in English accents especially a postvocalic consonantal r, as distinguished from its absence in a nonrhotic accent or from an R-coloured vowel

Rhineland Germans have a soft, back r, while those in eastern and southern Germany use an alveodental r, due (one supposes) to the respective influence of the French on the one hand and Slavs or Italians on the other. The hard r is said to carry better in an auditorium or on the radio, so performers from the Rhineland must learn to deliver those theatrical r's.

意味（2）

(US, in particular), the hard r at the end of the word nigger when spoken with a General American accent and considered maximally racist; as distinct from the African-American Vernacular English pronunciation conventionally spelled nigga, whose final sound is sometimes called soft a

First and foremost / You are under no circumstances / Ever permitted / To say the n-word / I don't care if it's soft a or hard r