Re: USAGE: intrusive "r" [was Re: (Offlist) Re: ASCII IPA]

Thomas R. Wier scripsit:

> For some reason, in America I associate this phenomenon
> exclusively with New England.  Perhaps I've watched too
> much public television -- Norm Abram, originally on _This
> Old House_ and now doing his own public television show
> _The New Yankee Workshop_, has a very distinct intrusive
> "r".  I don't think I've ever heard of Southern dialects
> with intrusive "r". I'd be curious to know if anybody's
> ever heard any.
If you mean intrusive "r" strictly as opposed to linking "r",
then I think you are right.  There are certainly Southern speakers
who use linking "r" -- restoring "r" where it etymologically belongs --
but I think only New Englanders have intrusive -- non-etymological -- "r".
There are also Southerners with neither kind of "r".

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