yod-dropper
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.94 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
5
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Example Sentences
- "British English speakers are reluctant yod-droppers here."
- "By contrast, Chad, 44, has no academic connection and is, correctly, a self-reported yod-dropper."
- "However, there were also several recurrent features at odds with this general pattern: the speaker was variably rhotic, i.e. he pronounced the /r/ in words such as car; he was a yod-dropper, i.e. he did not pronounce post-consonantal /j/ in words such as news; and he pronounced the in the name Palmer, which in almost all British dialects is phonologically /pɑːmə(r)/."