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Originally Posted by Roger Slater
Where does the "r" sound come from?
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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.