nonrhotic
adjective
phonetics denoting or speaking a dialect of English in which preconsonantal r s are not pronounced
nonrhoticity
-
a word derived from
nonrhotic.
Example Sentences
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A century on, people’s perception of nonrhoticity changed again, as Irish and Italian immigrants in the American Northeast began to adopt local speech patterns, giving it a less genteel association.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 26, 2026
Dropping your R’s is referred to as nonrhoticity.
From Slate ● Jan. 31, 2013
