Date:  Tue, 8 Apr 1997 18:00:25 -0400
From:  Beverly Flanigan <FLANIGAN[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]OUVAXA.CATS.OHIOU.EDU>
Subject: Re: Intrusive L (was Re: ADS-L Digest)

  A further note on intrusive 'l': I have a graduate student from Athens
  County who not only said 'draw(l)ing' as a child but also said/says
  'grandmawl'--and wrote it that way (or 'grammal' perhaps, since
  southern Ohio has open O)* until his teacher corrected it. But he
  agreed with me that it is a dark l--at least word-finally, if not
  medially (and I'll withhold comment on that one yet). It seems to be
  the very same 'l' that is vocalized in Philadelphia and Baltimore (I
  recall not understanding my mother-in-law from Balto when she
  pronounced 'ball' and 'oil'--the latter was 'aw(l)' with no [l].

  *This sound in Southern Ohio is not really open O but is midway between
  [a] and [O], close to the British low back vowel (upside down or
  backward [a]?). The spelling of 'mamaw' and 'papaw' reflects the same
  low back /a/.
                    Beverly Flanigan