wheel-barrel

[Mark A Mandel]

On Wed, 13 Aug 2003, Beverly Flanigan wrote:

#In some dialects /l/ is added after a vowel for liaison before another
#vowel (as /r/ is in other dialects).  Our secretary regularly says "I
#saw(l) it," for example, and many of my South Midland students say
#"draw(l)ing."

I hadn't known about this phenomenon; thanks. Does it occur after other
vowels? "After a vowel" implies yes, but you give only examples with
/open-o/.

-- Mark A. Mandel