• /r/ Other terms synonymous with "non-rhotic" include "/r/-deleting", "r-dropping", "r-vocalizing", and "r-less"; synonyms for "rhotic" include "/r/-pronouncing"...
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  • ended in an R and words that did not are no longer treated differently. This is also due to London-centric influences. Examples of R-dropping are car and...
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  • Initial dropping R dropping Pronoun dropping Y dropping Yod-dropping Dropping the F-bomb, swearing Name-dropping, mentioning names Automatic dropping device...
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  • / / and ⟨ ⟩, see IPA § Brackets and transcription delimiters. H-dropping or aitch-dropping is the deletion of the voiceless glottal fricative or "H-sound"...
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  • English pronounce /r/ only when it immediately precedes a vowel. This is called r-vocalisation, r-loss, r-deletion, r-dropping, r-lessness, or non-rhoticity...
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  • accent feature is the "r-dropping" (or non-rhoticity) of the late 18th and early 19th century, resulting in the similar r-dropping found in these American...
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    Yod-dropping: Dropping of /j/ after a consonant is much more extensive than in most of England. In most North American accents, /j/ is "dropped" or "deleted"...
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    and Canadian English dialects, rhoticity (or r-fulness) is dominant, with non-rhoticity (or r-dropping) being associated with lower prestige and social...
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  • Orleans or the anomalous dialect of Savannah, Georgia. Rhoticity: The "dropping" of the r sound after vowels was historically widespread in the South, particularly...
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  • cities, all of these accents historically noted by their London-like r-dropping (called non-rhoticity), a feature gradually receding among younger generations...
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