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[Grammar] I have a doubt about the British accent.

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Douglas dos Santos

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Watching some British movies and series, I noticed that the speakers usually use the sound /a/ instead of "schwa" in the end of some words, such as "suffer", "differ", "better" and "water". Is this affirmation right? Can I say that this is one of the linguistic phenomena in the English language?

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Linguist__

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Yes, I'd say some accents in Britain would be using an 'a' sounding vowel at the end of such words. Most likely a broad cockney accent - around the London area.

This is shown in how such speakers type in their own dialect - 'bruvva' for 'brother', 'whateva' for 'whatever'.
 
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