Brazilian Portuguese The assertion that that the rr in carro is normally pronounced as h x or  is simply wrong To the extent that such pronunciations exist at all they are restricted to certain regions and by and large to uneducated speakers and thus fall far short of being considered standard As a matter of fact they sound rather odd to most native speakers and would hardly ever be encountered in the media Without conducting a scientific survey I would say that x and  for initial r and intervocalic rr are restricted to poorly educated speakers from the city of Rio de Janeiro and its surroundings while the media and all reasonably educated speakers there are actually notorious for their use of  Analogously h confines itself to the Centro Oeste a large but sparsely populated region and again to uneducated speakers