    Sentence 1: tt is quite firm. about the.r-sound when it’  follows a vowel-sound aris at the ends of words, not  dropping it as is usual with the RP but insisting that it be  iven-full value, in'various ways, as it isin Scots and Irish  and, generally but not always, in’ the. speech’ of mést  ‘Americans except, for- those in New England ‘and the  South.    Sentence 2: Many Americans whose roots lie in Irélaid or  Scotland still have some of the same speech patterns as  their ancestors.