When someone from Britain speaks, Americans hear a "Britishaccent"...

[Andrew Durdin]

On 7/1/05, Grant Edwards <grante at visi.com> wrote:
> On 2005-06-30, Delaney, Timothy (Tim) <tdelaney at avaya.com> 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