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/t, d/ are reduced to an alveolar tap between vowels, realised as [t] or [r].
* Cot-caught merger, the merger of /?/ and /?/ to /?/ in some dialects of General American.

Syntax

*disuse of the T-V distinction (thou, ye). Contemporary Modern English usually retains only the formal second-person personal pronoun, "you"

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