Category:English terms with dissimilation of historic /ɹ/

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  3. barbituate
  4. Febuary
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  6. catridge
  7. patridge
  8. libary
  9. fustrated
  10. vetinarian

Begininning in the Middle English period, a tendency developed for /ɹ/ to be lost in words when another /ɹ/ occured. While forms reflecting this tendency have been adopted for some words in the standard language, others survive only dialectally or informally (e.g. catridge).


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