Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: $Revision: 1.6.2.16 $; site prism.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!yale!prism!dawn From: dawn@prism.UUCP Newsgroups: net.nlang Subject: Re: Double 'R' Message-ID: <9500005@prism.UUCP> Date: Fri, 18-Oct-85 12:01:00 EDT Article-I.D.: prism.9500005 Posted: Fri Oct 18 12:01:00 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 22-Oct-85 06:36:43 EDT References: <2176@brl-tgr.UUCP> Lines: 14 Nf-ID: #R:brl-tgr:-217600:prism:9500005:000:614 Nf-From: prism!dawn Oct 18 12:01:00 1985 If I remember my high school Spansih at all, one "rolls" a double r (sort of allowing your tongue to flutter a bit while uttering the sound) -- effectively pronouncing it twice. Perhaps that is why it is "allowed"?? ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Dawn Stockbridge Hall {cca, datacube, ihnp4, inmet, mit-eddie, wjh12}... Mirror Systems, Inc. ...mirror!prism!dawn "Knowing is not enough: We must apply. Willing is not enough: We must do. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------