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1108 " o 7.1 Basic sound-letter correspondence\n" +
1241 " 1. American English lacks this sound; words with this sound are pronounced with /?/ or /?/.\n" +
1243 " 3. The North American variation of this sound is a rhotic vowel.\n" +
1245 " 5. This sound is often transcribed with /i/ or with /?/.\n" +
1249 " 9. This sound only occurs in non-rhotic accents. In some accents, this sound may be, instead of /??/, /?:/. See pour-poor merger.\n" +
1250 " 10. This sound only occurs in non-rhotic accents. In some accents, the schwa offglide of /??/ may be dropped, monophthising and lengthening the sound to /?:/.\n" +
1273 " 2. The alveolar flap [?] is an allophone of /t/ and /d/ in unstressed syllables in North American English and Australian English.[30] This is the sound of tt or dd in the words latter and ladder, which are homophones for many speakers of North American English. In some accents such as Scottish English and Indian English it replaces /?/. This is the same sound represented by single r in most varieties of Spanish.\n" +
1358 "In everyday speech, the majority of words will normally be Germanic. If a speaker wishes to make a forceful point in an argument in a very blunt way, Germanic words will usually be chosen. A majority of Latinate words (or at least a majority of content words) will normally be used in more formal speech and writing, such as a courtroom or an encyclopedia article. However, there are other Latinate words that are used normally in everyday speech and do not sound formal; these are mainly words for concepts that no longer have Germanic words, and are generally assimilated better and in many cases do not appear Latinate. For instance, the words mountain, valley, river, aunt, uncle, move, use, push and stay are all Latinate.\n" +
