That would have been an intrusive R, as in "Laura Norder".So, the Wikipedia page on rhoticity in English only talks about rhoticity in terms of non-rhotic accents dropping r sounds in certain words. But this example isn't about dropping an r, it's about adding one ("myna" becoming "myner" *). Does that also fall under the concept of rhoticity, or does it have a separate name?One of the major, if not the major, distinctions between different English accents is rhoticity. This is whether or not you pronounce the letter "r" when it is not followed by a vowel sound.
*Actually, why isn't it the reverse, and "miner" pronounced like "minah"? Since the r isn't followed by a vowel…
But in this case AFAICT your footnote is exactly what happened - in a non-rhotic dialect such as Australian English, "miner" is pronounced "minah", and indeed Wikipedia claims that "miner" in the Australian bird sense is actually an alternate spelling of "myna(h)" [in which case I suspect that the distinctive spelling was mostly only kept because biologists love to catch minor naming differences that let them officially distinguish the "common" names of distinct groupings].
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