Re: USAGE: VOT and the status of /r/

On Sun, Jan 30, 2005 at 03:07:47AM +1100, Tristan McLeay wrote:
> >>Well, I was of the understanding they mostly did the same as me except
> >>amongst more conservative speakers. At least the concept of 'intrusive
> >>r' is a British one, implying that they must have at least a sizeable
> >>minority who have puts the unwritten R in to 'law and order'.
Certainly, my British coworker and erstwhile boss has such epenthetic Rs.

> >Hm. I notice that "law and order" in my xenolect comes out as
> >[lO:nO:d@],
> >apparently trisyllabic. "Lore and order" would be pronounced the same.
> >Is this
> >normal for non-vanilla rice non-rhotic 'lects?
Dunno about non-rhotics, but it's definitely tetrasyllabic for me - and
for most of us 'Murkins, judging by the way they pronounce the name of
the show on TV.

-Marcos