rhotic

• In non-rhotic accents, is silent in such words as hard, feathered; in h-dropping accents, is silent. —  Yahoo! Answers: Latest Questions
• Obviously, most settlers who headed to Australia much later carried with them the non-rhotic accent that by then had come to dominate England. —  Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]
• It probably helps to do this in a non-rhotic accent. —  Language Log
• r but their accents were overwhelmed by the well-established rhotic accent (except for a small group who, one story says, were blown off-course by a storm and ended up around what is now New York, I believe - which is why some north-eastern accents are non-rhotic). —  Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]
• Čačić, and Reddit user "apfelmus" for discussing this with me. homophones of numeral words, several readers pointed out that in non-rhotic dialects, "four" already has four homophones, including "faw" and "faugh". —  The Universe of Discourse

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