On 2005-07-02, Andrew Durdin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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"
Unless Amanda wasn't alone. Then it's I sawr amandar and joe. That's known as a "linking r" or something like that and is used to between a word that ends in a vowel (or a w?) and a subsequent word that starts with a vowel. If the preceeding word was supposed to end in an "r", it may be an intrusive r. Wikipedia has a pretty good article about the whole "r" thing: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhotic_accent -- Grant Edwards grante Yow! Yow! Maybe I should at have asked for my Neutron visi.com Bomb in PAISLEY-- -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
