On 2013-03-21, Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info> wrote:
> By the way, the "n" in "an" is not the only such "bridging" sound. In > Shakespearean times, it was usual to use "mine" in the same fashion: In many (most?) modern, non-rhotic, dialects of English one inserts an "intrusive" bridging "R" sound after a word that ends in certain vowel sounds and is followed by a word starting with a vowel. That description is a bit hard to "picture", but if you read the examples in the link below, you'll recogize it immediately: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linking_and_intrusive_R#Linking_R However, this only affects spoken English -- not written English. Is the Python language rhotic or non-rhotic? -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwards Yow! Hello, GORRY-O!! at I'm a GENIUS from HARVARD!! gmail.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
