Language A to Z. Episode 17, R for R-lessness Episode 17, R for R-lessness.
Streaming video - 2020
One of the strange things about language: To a large extent, we use it subconsciously. Professor McWhorter offers a panoramic sense of this idea by zeroing in on just one sound, "R," and its growing disappearance in British and American English (e.g., pronouncing corner not as "cor-ner" but "caw-nuh").
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[San Francisco, California, USA] :
The Great Courses
2020.
2023. - Language
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