Associations to the word «Rhotacism»

Wiktionary

RHOTACISM, noun. An exaggerated use of the sound of the letter R.
RHOTACISM, noun. (countable) (linguistics): A linguistic phenomenon in which a consonant changes into an R, such as Latin flos becoming florem in the accusative case.
RHOTACISM, noun. Inability to pronounce the letter R; derhotacization.

Wise words

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne