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I don't know much about it, but there are divergences in
British accents too, are there not? Cockney, Liverpudlian,
Northumbrian. US has Boston, Texan, Southern, etc.
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You want oversimplification, defining an accent by whether it's rhotic or not is an oversimplification.
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is that a main basis of accents? rhotic or non-rhotic? Until you brought that up recently when I was asking about pronunciation markings/sounds I didn't even know there was a name for the 'put in/take out an R' thing. Seems like more than just 'R' is affected in accents.
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is that a main basis of accents? rhotic or non-rhotic?Nope, rhotic and non-rhotic s just one difference in accents. There are many more. Other variations are mentioned in the Wikipedia article on regional varieties of English ( link).
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