Category:English terms with assimilation of historic /ɹ/

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  1. m'lud
  2. wust
  3. tassell
  4. mossle
  5. sasparilla
  6. wuth
  7. bostal
  8. hoss
  9. goss
  10. Worcester
Oldest pages ordered by last edit:
  1. gash
  2. dace
  3. cuss
  4. passel
  5. massy
  6. fust
  7. sasparilla
  8. goss
  9. hoss
  10. nuss

Begininning in the Middle English period, a tendency developed for /ɹ/ to be assimilated before coronal consonants, especially /s/; this is distinct from later non-rhoticity. While forms reflecting this tendency have been adopted for some words in the standard language (such as bass (“fish”) ← Old English bærs), others survive only dialectally or informally (e.g. hoss, passel).


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