r-dropping

r-dropping
/ahr"drop'ing/, adj. Phonet.
(of certain pronunciations of English) characterized by the absence of the sound /r/ in postvocalic position in the same syllable, as often encountered in speech identified with the southern and eastern United States and with most of England; r-less.
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