The intrusive 'r', which I do try to avoid in my own speech, could nevertheless perhaps be defended as a natural way of avoiding an awkward caesura or hiatus.

In some languages this is an accepted device. Think of French ~~

il est ~ the t is silent. But, when the words are reversed into the interrogative form, est-il?, the t is pronounced.

Aha! you cry; but the t is there in the word, so it may be pronounced in that interrogatively reversed form.

Yes, OK. But then consider

il y a ~~ no t. But in the interrogative, it becomes y a-t-il?

doesn't it ~ by the authority of the Académie française, no less!


Thus, perhaps, by analogy, the intrusive r, for the same purpose of o'erleaping the awkward caesura or hiatus, might on occasion be regarded as an acceptable device? Might not some take comfort from "draw-r-ing" on the model of "roaring"?

Just a suggestion, rather than any attempt to state a rule. I just think it might help with articulacy, or with articulation, sometimes.

~Michael~