horse/hoarse

[Aaron E. Drews]

on 19/4/00 7:44 PM, A. Vine wrote:


> Incidently, in watching the BBC news last night, I was cracking up at the
> weatherman's pronunciation of "Europe", essentially it came out "yurp".
>

With an [r] and everything?

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Aaron E. Drews                               The University of Edinburgh
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aaron at ling.ed.ac.uk                    Theoretical & Applied Linguistics

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