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Thread #141002   Message #3245665
Posted By: GUEST,leeneia
27-Oct-11 - 01:53 PM
Thread Name: Why the 'r' between vowels?
Subject: RE: Why the 'r' between vowels?
Certainly rhere's such a thing as sloppy speech. Listen to a hymn sometime and notice how many people don't put the last consonant on the last word, settling for Lor instead of Lord or Gah instead of God.

We got into trouble over that when singing a song that ended with 'You've been our home." Ahem.

My husband has a form of sloppiness which irritates me. He starts talking and doesn't bother to put any breath support behind his words until several words in. The result is that the critical first words are inaudible.

I call it the Marlboro Man style. "I'm so big and manly I don't HAVE to speak up."