Date: Fri, 14 Jan 1994 00:19:16 -0700

From: Rudy Troike RTROIKE[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]ARIZVMS.BITNET

Subject: Re: consonantal /r/



It is curious, when you think about the extensive Scottish, Scotch-

Irish, and Irish immigration to various parts of the Eastern States at

various times (and in the 1840s, in massive numbers), not to find equally

extensive occurrence of post-vocalic consonantal /r/. Particularly given

some of the isolation in Appalachia, it is surprising that some did not

survive or even prevail.

--Rudy Troike