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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
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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