  To wonder why people put "r"s where they don't belong?  (266
Posts) somebloke123 Tue 09-Oct-12 11:32:52  A trivial matter in
the grand scheme of things of course but:  I first noticed this
as a school boy "oop north" when a teacher from down south
joined the staff and caused great hilarity by saying "drawrings"
instead of "drawings".  It seems to be a southern phenomenon but
not at all a type of chavspeak. Some of the worst offenders are
media types who speak middle class "received" or "BBC" English.
It amounts to an inability to pronounce two successive vowel
sounds without putting an "r" between.  A few examples I have
heard in the radio, mainly over the past week or so:  West Brom
managed a one-all drawragainst Aston Villa.  Planning the
withdrawral from Afghanistan.  Chris Grayling is seeking a
change in the lawron reasonable force against burglars.  The
police are trying to restore Laura Norder.  And on Radio 4's
"Poetry Please" in an otherwise moving reading of Oscar Wilde's
"Ballad of Reading Jail":