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labialism

American

[ley-bee-uh-liz-uhm] / ˈleɪ bi əˌlɪz əm /

noun

a tendency, sometimes habitual, to make sounds labial, as in pronouncing the l in love as a w- like sound.

First recorded in 1880–85; labial + -ism

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