phonological patterns NEAR, SQUARE, START, NORTH

The loss of postvocalic r is recessive, as indicated for nurse. With these vowels, before juncture, it is common for educated to insert a schwa glide before the r-coloring, such as square . However, when the r is intervocalic, for example when a participial ending is added, then the schwa glide typically does not appear, yielding pronunciation pairs like near, nearing .