Warp wrote:
>   And who exactly is that? I assume you realize that, for example, people
> from Alabama pronounce English rather differently than people from
> Britain, Scotland or Australia? The exact same words may be pronounced
> rather differently in these English-speaking countries.

"The quantity of consonants in the English language is constant. If omitted
in one place, they turn up in another. When a Bostonian 'pahks' his 'cah',
the lost r's migrate southwest, causing a Texan to 'warsh' his car and
invest in 'erl wells'."

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