Can confirm. When I try it with a British accent, I notice my voice sounds faked and pretentious. When I just remove the “r” from the end of “better” while using my normal accent I sound like any character of the Martin Scorsese film The Departed. This is fun. I might talk like this all the time now.
It works as a pun in nonrhotic (e.g., some British) accents.
Can confirm. When I try it with a British accent, I notice my voice sounds faked and pretentious. When I just remove the “r” from the end of “better” while using my normal accent I sound like any character of the Martin Scorsese film The Departed. This is fun. I might talk like this all the time now.
US east coast (Boston etc) is also traditionally nonrhotic.
Hence Evan’s example of The Departed, which is my model of what Bostonians sound like. ;)