Re: Recovery, rant and revenge

In article <dbltir$dtu$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, down_not_across @
no.spam.yahoo.com says...
> John Barberio <barberio@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >Mad-A-Gas-CAH! not CAR! Soft R!
>
> As a point on the curve, in north western .us the pronunciation is taught
> "...CAR" to such an extent that until I read this, I had no idea it should
> be pronounced otherwise. In fact, I have never once heard it pronounced
> with a soft R - though I have played Risk since I was a child, etc., etc.
>

Odd. Even the USian dictionaries all seem to agree that it's a soft R
pronunciation. (http://www.answers.com/madagascar)

Are they teaching any other soft-R words as hard-Rs?

- John
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