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nonrhoticity en · NOUN

Meanings

1. (alt-of, alternative, uncountable) Alternative form of non-rhoticity.
   alt of non-rhoticity
   • The occasional retentions are probably 'unresolved' variation from the input dialects, which must have been partly rhotic, as full nonrhoticity was not achieved even in southern English standards until the later nineteenth century... 2004, Raymond Hickey, Legacies of colonial English: studies in transported dialects:
   • This impression is due to certain segmental features (nonrhoticity, vowel quality), but also to sentence intonation patterns. 2007, Daniel Long, English on the Bonin (Ogasawara) Islands:
   • The best-known features of ENE speech are its traditional nonrhoticity... 1996, Celia M Millward, A biography of the English language: