Paraplegic.

Alice Faber faber at HASKINS.YALE.EDU
Sun Apr 15 16:13:41 UTC 2001


Natalie Maynor said:
>Jerome Foster wrote:
>
>> How else do you pronounce it  in English besides the "French" way? The man
>
>Sometimes it's pronounced with a hint of [r] at the end.

Is this anything other than an instantiation of the difference between
r-full and r-less dialects? In other words, do people who ordinarily *do*
have post-vocalic /r/ as fully consonantal nonetheless pronounce
_reservoir_ without the post-vocalic /r/'s?

Alice
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