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cybalist@yahoogroups.com, glen gordon <glengordon01@...> wrote:
> You don't necessarily need a glottal stop to seperate
> two vowels in many languages. In some varieties of
> English, retroflex-r is used where final -r has been
> historically lost.
Thanks, I think I have got an idea-r-of what you mean. And some
Anglophones insert it where it is not historically lost, only using an
analogy of a known pattern of an "r instable":
"A bette' solution is to have our tea at the club"
"He is bette-r-at cricket than horse-polo".
Similarly in hyper-urban French "quatre-z-heures".
By the way, does anybody have an idear of why there is a hiatus in
"quatre-vingt-un". Wouldn't "quatre-vingt-z-un" have been the regular
form?
Lars