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Tweeter's rule for articulating sentence (8)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

rainbird

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'tweeter's' is the definition.
Both the definition and answer are singular nouns.
Maybe you can see a link between them that I can't see?

'rule for articulating sentence' is the wordplay.
'rule' becomes 'r' (legal abbreviation).
'for' means one lot of letters go next to another.
'articulating' becomes 'ain' (I can't justify this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'sentence' becomes 'bird' (slang term for a prison sentence).
'r'+'ain'+'bird'='RAINBIRD'

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(Another definition for rainbird that I've seen is " Flighty type".)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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