The Spanish word arroz means rice. Though it is a short word, it can be pronounced in many ways. They depend on the dialect of the speaker. Let me give six different pronunications:
most of Spain: trill, voiceless interdental fricative
many parts of Latin America: trill, alveolar fricative
parts of Latin America and southern Spain: trill, deleted alveolar fricative
Puerto Rico: velar fricative, alveolar fricative
Puerto Rico: velar fricative, deleted alveolar fricative
Costa Rica, Paraguay: assibilated trill, alveolar fricative
The use of the voiceless interdental fricative is restricted to Spain. The alveolar trill is common in Spanish, but in Puerto Rico it can be a velar fricative and in Costa Rica and Paraguay it is often assibilated. The different pronunciations of the word arroz indicate that Spanish has many dialects.
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