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(For some context, I live in Canada, beer labels are bilingually English & French here)

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

is it common to say [bɪr] in canada? i learned something!

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It should be /ɹ/ or /ɚ/ instead of /r/.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

/r/ is perfectly acceptable to represent that phoneme in a broad transcription. Would only be a problem had ~~he~~ they wrote [r].