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the Life", from their 1967 Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club
Band album, at the Sanctus in the Catholic Mass: "Hosanna-r-in

the highest" and in the phrases, "Law-r-and order" band
"Victoria-r-and Albert Museum".

Just like linking R, intrusive R may also occur between a root
morpheme and certain suffixes, such as draw(r)ing,

withdraw(r)al or Kafka(r)esque.

In linguistics, assimilation is a common phonological

process by which one sound becomes more like a nearby sound.

This can occur either within a word or between words. In rapid
speech, for example, "handbag" is often pronounced [hambag].

As in this example, sound segments typically assimilate to a
following sound (this is called regressive or anticipatory

assimilation), but they may also assimilate to a preceding one
(progressive assimilation). While assimilation most commonly

occurs between immediately adjacent sounds, it may occur

between sounds separated by others ("assimilation at a
distance"). For example, in English, the place of articulation of

nasals assimilates to that of a following stop (bank is
pronounced [bæŋk]).

Dissimilation is a phenomenon whereby similar consonant or

vowel sounds in a word become less similar. For example,

when one /r/ sound occurs before another in the middle of a
word in rhotic dialects of English, the first tends to drop out, as

in "beserk" for berserk, "supprise" for surprise, "paticular" for

particular, and "govenor" for governor – this does not affect the
pronunciation of government, which has only one /r/, but

English government tends to be pronounced "goverment",
dropping out the first n, colonel is standardly pronounced

"cornel", "deteriate" for deteriorate, "tempature" for
temperature, and "apeture" for aperture, a process called

haplology. When the /r/ is found as /bru/, it may change to /j/:

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