Re: "y" and "r"

On Sat, 31 Mar 2001, Nik Taylor wrote:

> Raymond Brown wrote:
> > I would
> > assume, and I guess most others would, that it'd be the way an educated
> > Italian speaking what most text books give as standard Italian.
>
> But there's no such standard in English.  There is such a standard if
> you're specifying British English, but American English has no such
> standard, it seems to have regional standards.  I'm not sure if
> Australian English has such a standard, but at any rate, there's
> definitely no standard for "World English".
JOOC, then, where do things like the American Heritage Dictionary or the
World Book Dictionary get their pronunciations?  Do they take an
average of news anchor voices or something?  :-p

YHL

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