Re: rhotic miscellany, and a usage note

From:    "J. 'Mach' Wust" <j_mach_wust@...>
> > Hitler was Austrian IIRC and began his political rise in Bavaria. Is the
> > trilled r possibly a southern feature?
>
> I don't know how the /r/ is realized in Bavarian dialects. Hitler, however,
> didn't have no Bavarian in his speech. He spoke just the standard media
> accent of his time.
Really? I could swear I've heard recordings of him where he used
the alveolar tap or trill rather than the uvular trill for <r> --
especially in "das deutsche [rrrr]eich".

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