Phrase guide
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Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
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noun
A movie that is intentionally produced to be R-rated ("Under 17 requires accompanying parent or adult guardian") by the Motion Picture Association (MPA), typically due to its multiple scenes of violence or nudity.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: US
Topics: broadcasting, film, media, television
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noun
Alternative letter-case form of hard r.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: alt-of
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noun
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.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: informal
Topics: human-sciences, linguistics, phonetics, phonology, sciences
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noun
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.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: US
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History
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