[OT] American versus British spelling and pronunciation

[H. S. Teoh]

On Thu, Mar 08, 2012 at 06:30:05PM -0500, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
> "H. S. Teoh" <hsteoh at quickfur.ath.cx> wrote in message 
> news:mailman.270.1331248862.4860.digitalmars-d at puremagic.com...
> > On Thu, Mar 08, 2012 at 10:29:05PM +0000, Stewart Gordon wrote:
[...]
> >> But anyway, to me, rolling Rs seems pretentious....
> > [...]
> >
> > Well, it's pretentious in English, but quite mellifluous in Russian.
> > :-) Though I'm told that even for native Russian speakers, it's one
> > of the last sounds acquired, so it must be pretty difficult. (And to
> > make things worse, they have *two* rolled R's, one palatized, one
> > not. As if one R isn't hard enough already.)
> >
> 
> R in general is a very difficult sound no matter what variation of R.
> In native English countries, R is one of the most (if not the most)
> common sounds for kids to have touble with.
                                 ^^^^^^
                            ahh, the irony :-)
			    I mean, iony.


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