Yod-dropper

British English speakers are reluctant yod-droppers here.

By contrast, Chad, 44, has no academic connection and is, correctly, a self-reported yod-dropper.

However, there were also several recurrent features at odds with this general pattern: the speaker was variably rhotic, i.e. he pronounced the /r/ in words such as car; he was a yod-dropper, i.e. he did not pronounce post-consonantal /j/ in words such as news; and he pronounced the in the name Palmer, which in almost all British dialects is phonologically /pɑːmə(r)/.