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In Southern Britain, /r/ is only pronounced when a vowel follows. This is also true of /l/ for many speakers, who use a vocalic sound instead when no vowel follows. In the RP era this was a stigmatized ‘Cockney’ feature, but it’s now more common and accepted.
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Lindsey, G. (2019). Chapter 20 Is /l/ Following /r/?. In: English After RP. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-04357-5_21
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