When did the modern English alphabet develop?
Modern English
Non-rhotic (/ɹ/-dropping) accents develop in the English of England, Australasia, and South Africa.
Happy-tensing: final lax [ɪ] becomes tense [i] in words like happY. Absent from some dialects.
Yod-dropping: The elision of /j/ in certain consonant clusters, like those found in "chute", "rude", "blue", "chews", and "Zeus".
Wine–whine merger from the reduction of /hw/ to /w/ in all national standard varieties of English, except Scottish and Irish.
In North American and Australasian English, /t, d/ are flapped or voiced to [ɾ] between vowels.
Cot-caught merger the merger of /ɔ/ and /ɑ/ to /ɑ/ in many dialects of General American.