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===Phonology===
* All [[Dental, alveolar and postalveolar trills|rolling r's]] ([r]) became [[Alveolar and postalveolar approximants|the modern English 'r']] ([ɹ]), except in [[Scottish English]].
* [[Phonological history of English consonant clusters|Initial cluster reductions]], like of /ɡn, kn/ into /n/: making [[homophone]]s of gnat and nat, and not and knot.
* The [[meet–meat merger]] in most dialects: making the words "meat", "threat" and "great" have three different vowels, although all three words once rhymed.
* The [[foot–strut split]]: so that "cut" and "put", and "pudding" and "budding" no longer rhyme; and "putt" and "put" are no longer homophones.
* The [[lot–cloth split]]: the vowel in words like "cloth" and "off" is pronounced with the vowel in "thought", as opposed to the vowel used in "lot".
After the [[Phonological history of the English language#After American–British split, up to the 20th century|American-British split]], further changes to English phonology included:
* [[Rhoticity in English|Non-rhotic (/ɹ/-dropping) accents]] develop in the [[English language in England|English of England]], Australasia, and South Africa.
* [[Happy-tensing]]: final [[tenseness|lax]] [ɪ] becomes tense [i] in words like happY. Absent from some dialects.
* [[Yod-dropping]]: The [[elision]] of /j/ in certain consonant clusters, like those found in "chute", "rude", "blue", "chews", and "Zeus".
* [[Wine–whine merger]] from the reduction of /hw/ to /w/ in all national standard varieties of English, except Scottish and Irish.
* In North American and Australasian English, /t, d/ are flapped or voiced to [ɾ] between vowels.
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