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Language A to Z. Episode 17, R for R-lessness.

Contributor(s): Material type: FilmFilmPublisher number: 13413215 | KanopyPublisher: The Great Courses, 2020Publisher: [San Francisco, California, USA] : Kanopy Streaming, 2023Description: 1 online resource (streaming video file) (17 minutes): digital, .flv file, soundContent type:
  • two-dimensional moving image
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Online resources: John McWhorterSummary: One of the strange things about language: To a large extent, we use it subconsciously. Professor McWhorter offers a panoramic sense of this idea by zeroing in on just one sound, "R," and its growing disappearance in British and American English (e.g., pronouncing corner not as "cor-ner" but "caw-nuh").
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John McWhorter

Originally produced by The Great Courses in 2020.

One of the strange things about language: To a large extent, we use it subconsciously. Professor McWhorter offers a panoramic sense of this idea by zeroing in on just one sound, "R," and its growing disappearance in British and American English (e.g., pronouncing corner not as "cor-ner" but "caw-nuh").

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

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