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  2. Rhotacism - Wikipedia

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    In Romanian, rhotacism shifted intervocalic l to r and n to r. Thus, Latin caelum ‘sky; heaven’ became Romanian cer, Latin fenestra ‘window’ Romanian fereastră and Latin felicitas ‘happiness’ Romanian fericire. Some northern Romanian dialects and Istro-Romanian also changed all intervocalic [n] to [ɾ] in words of Latin origin. [10]

  3. Pronunciation of English /r/ - Wikipedia

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    Thus, a rhotic accent pronounces marker as /ˈmɑrkər/, and a non-rhotic accent pronounces the same word as /ˈmɑːkə/. In rhotic accents, when /r/ is not followed by a vowel phoneme, it generally surfaces as r-coloring of the preceding vowel or its coda: nurse [nɝs], butter [ˈbʌtɚ].

  4. Linking and intrusive R - Wikipedia

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    The phenomenon of intrusive R is an overgeneralizing reinterpretation [11] [12] of linking R into an r-insertion rule that affects any word that ends in the non-high vowels /ə/, /ɪə/, /ɑː/, or /ɔː/; [13] when such a word is closely followed by another word beginning in a vowel sound, an /r/ is inserted between them, even when no final /r ...

  5. Why There's a Debate Over Cursive - AOL

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    A loose panel in a Cape Cod home revealed a hidden treasure behind its walls. Anna Prilliman came upon a trove of letters — hand-written seven decades ago, between a young man named Vance and ...

  6. Rhoticity in English - Wikipedia

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    The loss of postvocalic /r/ in the British prestige standard in the late 18th and the early 19th centuries influenced the American port cities with close connections to Britain, which caused upper-class pronunciation to become non-rhotic in many Eastern and Southern port cities such as New York City, Boston, Alexandria, Charleston, and Savannah. [9]

  7. R - Wikipedia

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    R, or r, is the eighteenth letter of the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide. Its name in English is ar (pronounced / ˈ ɑːr / ), plural ars , [ 1 ] or in Ireland or ( / ˈ ɔːr / ).

  8. R-colored vowel - Wikipedia

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    An r-colored or rhotic vowel (also called a retroflex vowel, vocalic r, or a rhotacized vowel) is a vowel that is modified in a way that results in a lowering in frequency of the third formant. [1] R-colored vowels can be articulated in various ways: the tip or blade of the tongue may be turned up during at least part of the articulation of the ...

  9. Should schools still teach cursive in the digital age?

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    The experience of mastering the looping letters and rhythmic flow from word to word — while never getting a satisfying answer for why Q and Z look like that — was a quintessential part of ...