One more campus linguistic snippet, from last Thursday's student newspaper, the Badger Herald:
Update, 3:30 am (by Mr. V): You can see the cartoonist's series on the IPA and other work here. (If you follow that link, note how she treats the American English rhotic in coda position.)
"omg, how did I only just learn about Mr. Verb?" — Lauren, Dec. 9, '08
"Mr. Verb and his minions, few though there seem to be, dislike reading, or dislike reading carefully." — Robert Hartwell Fiske, editor and publisher, The Vocabula Review