Re: Rs
| From: | BP Jonsson <bpj@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, April 4, 2003, 12:22 |
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At 01:28 1.4.2003 -0500, Tristan McLeay wrote:
>For us non-rhotics, pronouncing /r/ in that position
>can be mighty difficult. Not that we'd want to, of course. I can't imagine
>what possible benefit it would offer.
A smaller number of homophones?
/BP -- rhotic no thanks to my English-teachers at school, neither because of
excessive Ameriophilia.
/ B.Philip Jonsson B^)
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