Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site reed.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!houxm!vax135!cornell!uw-beaver!tektronix!reed!irena From: irena@reed.UUCP (Irena Sifrar) Newsgroups: net.nlang Subject: Re: Double 'R' Message-ID: <2112@reed.UUCP> Date: Wed, 6-Nov-85 01:59:00 EST Article-I.D.: reed.2112 Posted: Wed Nov 6 01:59:00 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 7-Nov-85 05:52:43 EST Organization: Reed College, Portland, Oregon Lines: 11 As a native speaker of 'R', I would like to add the following: Our children learn to roll the 'R' when they are already 2 or 3 years old, whereas they learn to pronounce all other sounds much earlier. They say 'L' or even 'Y' instead of 'R', and everybody around those kids gives them sentences with lots of 'R's to repeat... It is almost funny that we still enforce this 'difficult' sound. Irena