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- adjective Of an
English accent : not pronouncing the written letter "r " unless it is followed by avowel .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Nor is it likely that they can switch between a South Carolina drawl and a non-rhotic New England accent.
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Rhotic and non-rhotic are terms I never use coz they seem too sweeping etc.
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By this is meant that some varieties of English pronounce all orthographic ‘r’, (the rhotic group), while others do not (the non-rhotic speakers).
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One of these is into the two classes of ‘rhotic’ and ‘non-rhotic’.
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Actually, /r/ can occur pre-consonantally in “non-rhotic” accents.
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No rhotic speaker could ever have written the wrong word here, but I live in a non-rhotic part of England, and there will always be some doubt about which word is intended for the pronunciation /drɔː/.
Pronunciation spelling – or not? | Linguism | Language Blog 2009
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Earlier this month, I bemusedly listened to the BBC repeatedly talking about a military junta, which they pronounced with an initial J-as-in-jam sound and approximately rhyming with "punter" allowing for the terminal non-rhotic R.
Making Light: The Colorful Holiday Customs Of Our European Friends 2009
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No, this part of the country, as further north in Lancashire and Yorkshire, is on the whole non-rhotic.
On a disappearing dialect DC 2009
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There are still some Southern non-rhotic speakers as well.
Pronunciation spelling – or not? | Linguism | Language Blog 2009
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The timbre implied some decades of bourbon and unfiltered cigarettes, yet the accent, slack-jawed and non-rhotic, recalled Paramus Park Mall.
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