[Ken Brownlow]

Originally Posted by peter richards

Force has no 'r' sound in received pronunciation.

The intrusive 'r' comes when two adjacent words respectively end and start with vowel sounds, hence: India (r) and Pakistan, but Pakistan and India.

There's a poem on the metric board with 'a bloody great shopping mall' in it, which should more properly be 'bloody great shopping centre'. You took our words and spat them back. :-)

If you want water, turn on the tap.

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