He learned Mrs. Piper was from a place called Scotland, which made her a Scot, and also explained why her accent, lilting and rhotic, sounded so different from Professor Lovell's crisp, straight intonations.
— Babel: Or the Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators' Revolution by R. F. Kuang (Page 116 - 117)
new vocabulary: rhotic
relating to or denoting a dialect of variety of English in which R is pronounced before a consonant (as in hard) and at the ends of words (as in far)
so many great new words in this novel already
