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Thread #141002   Message #3243390
Posted By: Dazbo
23-Oct-11 - 04:53 AM
Thread Name: Why the 'r' between vowels?
Subject: RE: Why the 'r' between vowels?
Being born and raised in Middlesex I'm used to being mocked for drawring (and after thirty odd years of it I still don't think I put an R in it) but to me, in my ignorance, Napa and Napper are homophones. It's just the long Ahhh sound of the letter A (like Bahhth, which foriegners (i.e. not NW Londoners and surroundings) seem to add an R at the end when it's really an H.