SINCE 1828
r-less
adjective
\ ˈärlə̇s, ˈȧl-\
Definition of r-less
of a dialect of English
: having with varying regularity as the speech counterpart of a prepausal or preconsonantal orthographic r the sound \ə\ or greater duration or nothing at all instead of the retroflex sound of some dialects
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