On 7/1/05, Grant Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 2005-06-30, Delaney, Timothy (Tim) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Tom Anderson wrote: > > > >> How about carrier? > > > > Ends in an "a" (Australian ;) > > Right, but due to some wierd property requiring conservation of > consonants, when speaking Strine you've got to take the r's > removed from words like "carrier" and "order", and add them to > the ends of other words like Amanda.
No, you've got it wrong -- we take them and insert them where they were never intended to be: "I saw Amanda" sounds like "I sawramanda" Andrew -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list