A Short History of English, With a Bibliography of Recent Books On the Subject, And Lists of Texts And Editions
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Papers, pp. 6'^, ()6), while Peter Wentworth writes Atither for Arthur, ibid. p. 77; in 1775 Walker transcribes bar, bard, card, regard, as baa, baad, etc. See Jespersen, Mod. Engl. Gr., p. 361. It is typical of many Regional and Class Dialects to-day, that they retain [r] when Received Standard omits it. Among the younger generation at the present time, there is a tendency to omit [r] between vowels at the end of one word and the beginning of the next, so that we often hear such pronunciations... as [fa awe?', fa sva, 'Ssa /t/z], etc., and even in i6o History of English Sounds: I 11. Modern [chap.vh the middle of words between vowels [v«kt5J3, hae-z, vs-i, ms.3-{\ Victoria, Harry, very, Mary. See on this tendency my Growth of English, pp. 77 and 78. § 280. [sj, zj] become [f, z] ; [dj, tj] become [dz, t/]. This change is universal in some words, and in others is the rule, except in very careful and affected speech, or where the spelling has reintroduced the older pronunciation. sugar, sure, fissure, literature ; pleasure, leisure, azure, seizure, etc.
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