Date:  Mon, 29 Apr 1996 10:59:01 -0400

From:  Wayne Glowka <wglowka[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]MAIL.GAC.PEACHNET.EDU>

Subject: Re: epenthetic /l/ and notation woes



>2 points:

>

>Holmes is definitely L-less for me, and I believe in the UK as well.

>Historically it should be L-less as should Stockholm, calm, balm, alms, etc

>(see Dobson v.2. sect. 425 and my article in AS 69) but there has been some

>back and forth with words like falcon, vault, cauldron, and recently, calm,

>et al.





Yes, for seventy pages or so of discussion on the /l/ or lack of /l/ in

certain words like "folklore," you may want to look at the archives of this

list for last fall under "folklore" (although other subject headings were

relevant).  The student who asked the original question about the /l/ in

the first syllable of "folklore" apologized for causing all the trouble.





Wayne Glowka

Professor of English

Director of Research and Graduate Student Services

Georgia College

Milledgeville, GA 31061

912-453-4222

wglowka[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]mail.gac.peachnet.edu