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and Carlisle, both of which are close to the border with rhotic Scotland, but that this was absent from the majority of inhabitants.

United States

The loss of postvocalic in the British prestige standard in the late 18th and the early 19th centuries influenced the American port cities with close connections to Britain, which caused upper-class pronunciation to become non-rhotic in many Eastern and Southern port cities such as New York City,

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