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R. F. Kuang: Babel (Hardcover, 2022, Harper Voyager)

Traduttore, traditore: An act of translation is always an act of betrayal. 1828. Robin Swift, …

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  (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