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

[Erik Max Francis]

Grant Edwards wrote:

> 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.

The distinction is rhotic vs. non-rhotic accents, by the way; non-rhotic 
accents drop the _r_s.  The latter example is usually an example of 
overcorrection.

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