Loss of the sound of "r" after a vowel and before a consonant in the middle of a word is common in spoken English. This linguistic idiosyncrasy has given the language a few new words, including cuss from curse, bust from burst, and passel from parcel.
reporters had a whole passel of questions for the new basketball coach
the young couple helped a passel of students in the span of a few years
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Age: 22 Irish was the Orioles’ first pick among their passel of selections on Day 1 of the 2025 draft, going at No. 19.—Keith Law, New York Times, 9 Feb. 2026 Others have followed, with Comcast recently spinning off a passel of cable networks from NBCUniversal into a new stand-alone entity called Versant, and Warner Bros. Discovery planning to separate its streaming and studio assets from its traditional TV properties.—Brian Steinberg, Variety, 4 Feb. 2026 Private American lander tips over on the moon On March 6, Athena, a robotic lander built by the Houston company Intuitive Machines, landed successfully on the moon with a passel of NASA science payloads.—Mike Wall, Space.com, 29 Dec. 2025 The first full week of July has a passel of content for all kinds of audiences, including a teen party out of control documentary and some cool-looking original films.—PC Magazine, 4 July 2025 See All Example Sentences for passel