Originally Posted By: zmjezhd
I have observed that most ad hoc pronunciation "systems" in the States use uh (as did Garu) to represent this sound, but in the UK they use er. This sometimes leads to confusion.


Terry Gross ran an old interview with Lynn Redgrave on Fresh Air today. In it Ms. Redgrave recounts how her father used to constantly correct her intrusive Rs in such words as "sawr" as in "I sawr a bird today." This is a fairly common feature of many non-rhotic dialects. My thought was that the intrusive Rs were just making up for all the Rs that were left out. See the above example, which would have been pronounced something like "I sawr a behd today."