Date: Wed, 1 Nov 1995 09:01:02 -0500

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

Subject: Re: folk/folklore



Two notes:



1) A student yesterday said "You're welcome" to me yesterday with no /l/.

She was r-ful, however.



2) I ought to let this thread die, but I'm wondering about other groups of

words. How l-ful and what vowels occur in the same speaker in words like

these?



psalm salmon salmonella



psaltery sultry salty saltine



Faulk Faulkner Falcons falcon falconry



(By the way, an unabashedly racist-talking someone I know [who talks this

way to make everyone in the room uneasy] always talks about the Atlanta

FalCOONS--whether they've been losing or winning.)



fowl fowler foul fouler



palm Palmer palmate pommade napalm



shelf chef shelf-liner



balm bomb



Bub bulb (Sledd's illustration of duration as phonemic in Southern)



pap palpitation



pup pulp (People around here are "pulpwood sawyers"--no /l/)



folk folks folklore folkdance folksong folksy



poke pork Polk



poultry paltry poetry



poultice poetess



walk wok



hep (as in "hep-cat") help helper helpful



Alps Albert Alfred



Camellia Amelia (locally, [kxmejx] and [xmijx]--x = schwa)



altitude attitude



all Al already "Al ready?"



y'all yawl yowl



hall howl Howell



pull pool



bow (as in "bow tie) bowl bowling bowler



mall maul mallet malt



molt moat



cold code



hit hilt



sick silk sicky silky



filters fitters



melt met



Sorry about this long list, but I was just wondering.





















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