Talk:Rhotic and non-rhotic accents

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[edit] Definition of IPA /r/ to make it less technical

There is a technical tag at the top of this article. I think that there should be an introduction where it is clarified what /r/ is. Most non-specialists are not aware of this. For example, most English people consider the /ɜː/ vowel in (Queen's English) bird, girl, kerb to be an /r/. Some would suppose the /ɪə/ vowel in air, chair to be an /r/, or the long /ɑː/ in father, tomato. For this article to be less technical, it should be defined what we mean by /r/. Epa101 (talk) 14:25, 4 May 2008 (UTC)