hard r (English, noun)
expansion: hard r (plural hard r's)
Senses:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonetics
phonology
sciences
glosses: A rhotic sound which is emphatic or strongly enunciated; in English accents especially a postvocalic consonantal r, as distinguished from its absence in a nonrhotic accent or from an R-coloured vowel.
tags: informal
glosses: The hard r at the end of the word nigger when spoken with a General American accent and considered more offensive than the African-American Vernacular English pronunciation conventionally spelled nigga, whose final sound is sometimes called soft a.
tags: US
Forms:
form: hard r's
tags: plural
form: hard R
tags: alternative
form: hard-r
tags: alternative