Re: My Pet Dinosaur - Re: If the asteroid had missed...

[David Marjanovic <david.marjanovic@gmx.at>]

> How do you pronounce an r like a vowel?

No, you _use_ it as a vowel, instead of a vowel, in the role vowels play in 
syllables, as a "syllabic consonant".

Take the middle syllable of "Internet". For many Americans nothing would 
change if it were spelled _drr_ instead of _ter_; the _e_ is just there for 
historical reasons. That's what I mean.