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Old 05-30-09, 06:50 PM   #18
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Originally Posted by Platapus View Post
Maybe you can explain to me how a word spelled "idea" can be pronounced with an "r" at the end?

Maybe we took some of them extra vowels and consonants from the British and just stuck them on the end of random words?

That has always bothered me. There are some highly educated people who speak like that.
But they don't spell "idea" with an "R" and that's the whole point.
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