I just did a bit of editing on my post, while you where making yours. Are you talking about accents?
Yes. The only part of North America where you can hear an "r" in between the two words of "paw over" is the northeastern coast around Boston; and even there it would only be possible for a minority of speakers. For a large and increasing proportion of speakers, the words "paw" and "pore" don't even have the same vowel.
My grammar can be pretty terrible sometimes so I don't like to judge, but a couple of bug-bears.....
*People who write TILL when they mean 'TIL - this drives me up the wall!
BUZZZ! Clean-up in aisle 2: man with egg on his face! I quote
Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of Modern English Usage (1994):
Till and until are both venerable words, and are both highly respectable. [Uh, if something is venerable, is it not ipso facto also respectable?] The notion that till is a short form of until is erroneous: till is actually the older word, dating back to at least the 9th century. Until was first recorded around 1200. . . .
What 'til is, unarguably, is a variant spelling of till used by writers who do not know that till is a complete, unabbreviated word in its own right.
In other words, to write
'til under the impression that it is an abbreviation of
until is analogous to writing
'to under the impression that it is an abbreviation of
unto or
'round under the impression that it is an abbreviation of
around. The latter error, unfortunately, is very common among Americans. (I don't think that speakers of English in the UK, where
round is the preferred prepositional form, make the same error.)
About 5 or 10 years ago, there was a novelty music act called "Hampton The Hampster" (sic) - I'm not usually bothered by novelty-pop (in fact I quite enjoy cheesy dance music and proud to admit it), but the spelling of hamster really made my brain implode! Especially as it was very popular with little children who probably grew up thinking that's how hamster is spelled.....
This thread is not about misspellings per se, but while we are on the subject of music acts that have a deleterious effect on spelling, I will mention one that has had a disastrous effect on pronunciation: I believe that it is because of Bill Haley and the Comets, a music act from the 1950s, that people pronounce the name
Halley in
Halley's Comet as if it were
Haley. The name of the discoverer of the comet is pronounced just as it is spelled, with a short "a" as in "hat."
Reminds me of a story I read about the mega-success of Fleetwood Mac's "Rumours" inadvertently causing some Americans to spell RUMOURS the British way instead of the U.S. RUMORS - but I don't know how true that story is.....
Off-topic again, but I will add two other instances of the irritating use of British spellings by Americans: "glamour" for "glamor" and "theatre" for "theater." I wish that we (in the US) had never adopted these lame attempts at spelling reform, as they merely complicate matters and do not make spelling significantly easier; but since we did adopt them a hundred and some years ago, we should be consistent in using them.