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Originally Posted by atisketatasket
Oh, that’s that thing—rhoticity?—where some speakers drop an r if there’s another r in the word, especially if the dropped r isn’t in a stressed syllable.
I searched my old emails to find my family’s email thread on election 2016. I’d forgotten—it happened just a few days after Smaug dumped me for no good reason. I was not a happy person that November.
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Ah... it's kinda funny that earlier in the semester she was pronouncing the 2nd R. Suddenly tonight she's not. I wonder if that rhoticity thing happens when a person is tired, she sounded really tired tonight. Even let us out early.