[Ads-l] Maybe it's a Saint Louis thing

[James A. Landau]

On Sun, 10 Jan 2016 23:48:59 zone - 0500 Wilson Gray <hwgray at GMAIL.COM> pundinted:

<quote>
I've mentioned more than once that, when ibuprofen, under the 
brand-name,
"Motrin," was still a prescription drug, I was under the impression that
the name was "Moltrin" [moUltrIn].
<end quote>

For some reason I have always inserted an /l/ into "Wabash", making it /'wall bash/.  I grew up in Louisville, Kentucky, far from the "Walbash" River but my father's office telephone was on the Wabash exchange, so I heard his phone number frequently as "Walbash 2211".

I have an /l/ in both "walk" and "calm".  I also put an /r/ into "wash" and "Washington".

   - Jim Landau

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