At first, English speakers in the colonies and England did use a rhotic accent. But after the Revolutionary War, upper-class and upper-middle-class citizens in England began using non-rhotic ...

If you say, I pahked my cah in Hahvahd Yahd, like some vaudeville version of a Boston accent, you are non-rhotic. If you say, I parked my car in Harvard Yard, you are being rhotic.

For example, the New Yorker accent is one of the most visible regional accents in American culture, ... She used the example of being rhotic vs. non-rhotic — in other words, ...

American speakers have rhotic accents, or pronounce the r’s in words like “park” or “harp.” British speakers have non-rhotic accents, so the words sound more like “pahk” or “hahp.” ...

Some American accents – Boston, areas of New York, parts of New England, some Southern regions – follow the English pattern, however, and are non-rhotic. That’s why the Boston accent is so ...

The classic Boston accent is non-rhotic. When you’re non-rhotic, most of the time you don’t pronounce an r when it follows a vowel. As part of the research conducted by Stanford and his team, ...