What does that even mean? There's nothing clearer or more explicit about either. Maybe you mean that it closer matches the orthography? > than act like the let

What does that even mean? There's nothing clearer or more explicit about either. Maybe you mean that it closer matches the orthography? > than act like the letter doesn't exist (rhotic vs non-rhotic). Every language changes. Nobody is acting like "the letter doesn't exist", just occasionally that phoneme has changed or dropped in their dialect. Even in non-rhotic accents, an r in the orthography can indicate a change in vowel quality. > I think it's another factor why American English is more popular than British English (besides the huge economic factor, the US economy being 5x the UK one), I think the greater population, and the fact that the Hollywood content has embedded itself globally, has resulted in more exposure to American content (of which there is more of). Any dialect will sound clearer to you if you're exposed to it more often than others.