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| rhoticity (English has a phenomenon, called rhoticity: the ancestral English, i.e. Early Modern English or Shakespearean English, was rhotic like American English. R was pronounced, in other words, in all places. British English, with R pronounced only in front of vowels, is the later variant (and originally local to London and Slough). The changeover was complete by 1840 (again, in the time of Peter I or Victoria I), but not in the USA, which stubbornly kept its hard R's. Марчихин) | |||