Pronounce vs. Rhotacism

(transitive) To declare formally, officially or ceremoniously.

Example: ‘I hereby pronounce you man and wife.’;

(transitive) To declare authoritatively, or as a formal expert opinion.

Example: ‘The doctor pronounced them legally dead.’;

(intransitive) To pass judgment.

Example: ‘The judge had pronounced often before, but never in front of such a crowd.’;

(transitive) To sound out (a word or phrase); to articulate.

(in passive) To sound like.

(intransitive) To produce the components of speech.

Example: ‘Actors must be able to pronounce perfectly or deliberately disabled.’;

(transitive) To pronounce dead.

(transitive) To read aloud.

To utter articulately; to speak out or distinctly; to utter, as words or syllables; to speak with the proper sound and accent as, adults rarely learn to pronounce a foreign language correctly.

To utter officially or solemnly; to deliver, as a decree or sentence; as, to pronounce sentence of death.

Example: ‘Sternly he pronouncedThe rigid interdiction.’;

To speak or utter rhetorically; to deliver; to recite; as, to pronounce an oration.

Example: ‘Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounced it to you.’;

To declare or affirm; as, he pronounced the book to be a libel; he pronounced the act to be a fraud.

Example: ‘The God who hallowed thee and blessed,Pronouncing thee all good.’;

To give a pronunciation; to articulate; as, to pronounce faultlessly.

To make declaration; to utter on opinion; to speak with confidence.

Pronouncement; declaration; pronunciation.

speak, pronounce, or utter in a certain way;

Example: ‘She pronounces French words in a funny way’; ‘I cannot say `zip wire'’; ‘Can the child sound out this complicated word?’;

pronounce judgment on;

Example: ‘They labeled him unfit to work here’;

An exaggerated use of the sound of the letter R.

A linguistic phenomenon in which a consonant changes into an R, such as Latin flos becoming florem in the accusative case; rhotacization.

Inability to pronounce the letter R; derhotacization.

An oversounding, or a misuse, of the letter r; specifically (Phylol.), the tendency, exhibited in the Indo-European languages, to change s to r, as wese to were.