English Language Question

[bednobs]

is there a name for someone inserting extra vowel sounds between two consonant sounds in speech ?
examples:
Les -er -ly
Lunch - er time
Mag - er- num

[vulcan42]

Idiot, comes to mind.

[bednobs]

thanks so much. My daughter seems to struggle with pronouncing clashing consonant sounds in words. I kind of find it endearing but next time i'll be sure to tell her she's an idiot

[Barsel]

Yes, Brenda. Sorry it's just that I know someone of that name that has always said neck er lace, but I don't know if there is a proper name for people who do that.

[jno]

the process is called svarbhakti but I don't know that there's a name for the people who do it.

https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/svarabhakti

[Peter Pedant]

yes cherie there is

epenthesis /ɛˈpɛnθɪsɪs/
Learn to pronounce
the insertion of a sound or letter within a word, e.g. the b in thimble.

twisty tweeing it - nuclear becomes nucular
is metathesis
e transposition of sounds or letters in a word.
"he attributes the metathesis of the last two sounds to the Creole tendency to end words with a" or Joe Dolce I wd have said

[bookbinder]

The process is also called anaptyxis, but I don't know what a person who does it is called:
https://www.yourdictionary.com/anaptyxis

[gingejbee]

Wow, jno gets a gold star for coming up with that....

[jno]

and I even reversed the process by accidentally leaving out the A, gingejbee...

[Peter Pedant]

and this is the entry for epenthesis in COllins

https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/epenthesis

and MY graph of uses is longer - around 1750

[gingejbee]

So you did, jno...and shh, nobody noticed!

[bednobs]

I love the fact that all the words for finding something difficult to pronounce are difficult to pronounce

[JimF]

You might also be interested in the intrusive r, whereby an r is interpolated between a word which ends with a vowel (sound) and the following word which begins with one. The most famous I suppose would be law-r-and order.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linking_and_intrusive_R#:~:text=The%20phenomenon%20of%20intrusive%20R,between%20them%2C%20even%20when%20no

[fbg40]

My Mum always said Westmin'I'ster
FBG40

[Mexican18]

What about chimeney and filum?

[hellywelly4]

A friend of mine always says dog-u-s. drives me mad!

[THECORBYLOON]

Eh?

[ladybirder]

I used to get told off for saying cerstificate so I said it on purpose after that.

[THECORBYLOON]

Why would the "b" in "thimble" not be pronounced?

[Peter Pedant]

oh my area says - sustifficate
and when tubeless tyres came in they were jew-bless or possibly chew-bless
intrusive r is gender specific ( sociolinguistics ) and girls do it more than boys.
altho I dont like
africa rand australia - - I cannot abide aller riz great

there is no possibility of a carried across /r/ in the takbir
the announcing(*) fluffettes on the Beeb have reverted ( encouraged by me I must say) to allahoo akbar

(*) yeah annoucing mispronouncing flouncing announcers and then I can hear the thin after-whine of TTT complaining "wot all dat about den?" and some TTT hanger on echoing " yeah - what?" - My life is linguistic hell I can tell you reader

[Canary42]

/// What about ... filum? ///

I thought that was a Norfolk thing - it's the only place I've come across it in common use.