Category:English terms with assimilation of historic /ɹ/
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Begininning in the Middle English period, a tendency developed for /ɹ/ to be assimilated before coronal consonants, especially /s/; this is distinct from later non-rhoticity. While forms reflecting this tendency have been adopted for some words in the standard language (such as bass (“fish”) ← Old English bærs), others survive only dialectally or informally (e.g. hoss, passel).