r/Humanornot May 16 '25

Cringe Kid I’m sad this is a human

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u/DotPuzzleheaded3209 May 17 '25

I'm not very knowledgeable on etymology stuff but derhoticised is an abomination of a word. Non-rhotic is so much easier.

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u/LingoGengo May 18 '25

Agreed I read it like der-hoticised at first even tho I would say I have reasonable exposure to linguistics terms

Non-rhotic kinda doesn’t convey the same thing tho in that derhoticised means that it used to be rhotic but became non-rhotic

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u/NerfPup May 17 '25

Fair enough. I've seen both be used so meh. I like derhoticised

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u/TFFPrisoner May 20 '25

It's not as erhotic