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is it common to say [bɪr] in canada? i learned something!
It should be /ɹ/ or /ɚ/ instead of /r/.
/r/ is perfectly acceptable to represent that phoneme in a broad transcription. Would only be a problem had ~~he~~ they wrote [r].
yeah true. thx. i was just a bit puzzeled bc i assumed [ ].