Date: Thu, 2 Nov 1995 06:59:15 -0600

From: Katherine Catmull kate[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]BGA.COM

Subject: Re: folk/folklore



At 9:11 AM 11/1/95 -0800, Peter McGraw wrote:

Could we add wolf (as in Big Bad) and woof! (as in Bow wow!) to Wayne's

list? I'm still curious whether anyone but me pronounces (or formerly

pronounced) these homophonically as [wUf].



My boss, born and raised in Hollywood, does. He has trouble with l's in

general and I always thought it was a sort of lisp, or something, but I am

beginning to see it may instead be a dialect.



Kate Catmull kate[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]bga.com