Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!news.glorb.com!news-out.readnews.com!transit3.readnews.com!panix!not-for-mail From: Grant Edwards Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Subject: Re: Vowels [was Re: "monty" < "python"] Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2013 17:31:32 +0000 (UTC) Organization: PANIX Public Access Internet and UNIX, NYC Lines: 22 Message-ID: References: <987098b6-d79c-4597-b656-9b3e983740e8@z3g2000vbg.googlegroups.com> <514a8c5e$0$30001$c3e8da3$5496439d@news.astraweb.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: dsl.comtrol.com X-Trace: reader2.panix.com 1363887092 8051 64.122.56.22 (21 Mar 2013 17:31:32 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@panix.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2013 17:31:32 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: slrn/1.0.1 (Linux) Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:41656 On 2013-03-21, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > By the way, the "n" in "an" is not the only such "bridging" sound. In > Shakespearean times, it was usual to use "mine" in the same fashion: In many (most?) modern, non-rhotic, dialects of English one inserts an "intrusive" bridging "R" sound after a word that ends in certain vowel sounds and is followed by a word starting with a vowel. That description is a bit hard to "picture", but if you read the examples in the link below, you'll recogize it immediately: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linking_and_intrusive_R#Linking_R However, this only affects spoken English -- not written English. Is the Python language rhotic or non-rhotic? -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwards Yow! Hello, GORRY-O!! at I'm a GENIUS from HARVARD!! gmail.com