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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. Too frequent use of r.
  2. n. Erroneous pronunciation of r; utterance of r with vibration of the uvula.
  3. n. Conversion of another sound, as s, into r.
  4. n. Also spelled rotacism.

Wiktionary

  1. n. An exaggerated use of the sound of the letter R.
  2. n. countable, linguistics : A linguistic phenomenon in which a consonant changes into an R, such as Latin flos becoming florem in the accusative case.
  3. n. Inability to pronounce the letter R; derhotacization.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. An oversounding, or a misuse, of the letter r; specifically (Phylol.), the tendency, exhibited in the Indo-European languages, to change s to r, as wese to were.

Etymologies

  1. From New Latin rhotacismus ("excessive or peculiar use of [r], especially the conversion of another sound (usually [s] or [z]) to [r]"), from Ancient Greek * ῥωτακισμός, from ῥωτακίζω (rhotakizō, "I incorrectly use ρ"), from ῥῶ (rhō, "rho (the Greek equivalent of r)") (Wiktionary)

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  1. rotacism
  1. bur
  1. iotacism

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  • bilby Wouldn't that be rrrrhotacism? Jan 26, 2009

  • tbtabby Noun: Excessive use of the letter R. Jan 25, 2009

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