ABSTRACT
Questions, suggestions and issues to consider 1 Find further examples to support David Crystal’s rejection of the listeners’ claims
that ‘a letter is there in the spelling, and so it should be pronounced’. 2 Do you think you use intrusive r? If you think you do not, then is this because
you come from a region where rhotic English is spoken (e.g. Scotland, the West Country, most of the USA)? Or are you a non-rhotic speaker who has made a conscious effort to eliminate it from your speech?
