Vowels [was Re: "monty" < "python"]

Grant Edwards invalid at invalid.invalid
Fri Mar 22 10:14:30 EDT 2013


On 2013-03-21, Terry Reedy <tjreedy at udel.edu> wrote:
> On 3/21/2013 1:31 PM, Grant Edwards wrote:
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linking_and_intrusive_R
>
>> Is the Python language rhotic or non-rhotic?
>
> Python uses American rather that British English, which would make it
> rhotic.

Well, there are parts of New England, New York and the Southeast that
have historically been non-rhotic.

> I never imagined that there were people who would mix up 'tuner' and 
> 'tuna'. Live and learn.

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