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We tend to lose Rs after syllable initial bilabials and labio-dentals. Witness Febyuary, libary, infastructure, and speak/speech.
Re: on vs. at the weekend. Prepositions tend to be slippery. On accident is becoming increasingly popular among younger speakers. Or in line vs. on line, the latter being common in New York City for the former (not in reference to being logged on to a computer network).
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then there is the problem of bought/brought that everyone tends to mix up
I've never heard that. I need to sign off the computer and get out more ...
Ceci n'est pas un seing.
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I'd never heard it either but it would fit with my idea about losing Rs after bilabial plosives or labiodental fricatives.
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I'd never heard it either Well, who bought it up, then? {wink}
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I'd never heard it either Well, who bought it up, then? {wink} bexter
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well I've heard of it...hear it frequently missed used.
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I hear it at least once a day, occasionaly I hear it said correctly and I almost die of shock, but then, inevitably, it gets said incorrectly again by the same person, so I have to assume they said it correctly by accident or unintentionally and did in fact mean the other 
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guess some people just don't care
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I have to assume they said it correctly by accident or unintentionally
Well, maybe it's a regionally variation, as Faldo suggested earlier in the thread. If you hear it all the time, it's probably well under way to becoming standard (for the region). Just out of curiosity, where do you live? And do you hear rs being dropped elsewhere?
This reminds me of the brouhaha over AAVE aks pronunciation of ask. The fact, that as far back as Old English, both pronunciations have been in free variation, is usually unknown by those complaining.
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Snowy Southern England. Not so much rs but often th turns to f...that is regional I believe...it's spreading though! Rs lost sometimes in February but that is just the diffuculty of r after the bilabial I think...
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