The letter R is one too and we just don't acknowledge it
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Hmm. But aren't we really making a "u" sound there, and faking it away on the specific onomatopoeia of "grr"? Aren't we really saying "Guuuuuuur" and just spelling it otherwise? I do see your point of it as a half-vowel, maybe, but...
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The "R" sound is meant to imply a "ruh", rather than just the "errgh" sort of noise, from my experience.
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Technically this is an "r-colored vowel" and you could argue it should be spelled "gurr" or whatever But you'll notice our instinct when we write an onomatopeia like "grrr" or "whirrrr" or "brrr" is to repeat the R to extend the sound
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It's true.
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the "r" sound here is called an r-colored vowel, in this case [ɝ] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/R-colored_vowel … -Alicia
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