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

[Grant Edwards]

On 2005-07-02, Andrew Durdin <adurdin at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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"

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
  
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