/bolth/ for both

[Wilson Gray]

I've never heard it. But, as someone whose own speech exemplifies this
phenomenon, it's not very likely that I would notice it in anyone
else's speech. As a child, I pronounced "cow" as "cowl," until I
learned to read and spell. As an adult, I pronounced Motrin as
"Mole-trin," until some busy-body pronunciation prescriptivist ;-)
called it to my attention/called my attention to it.

-Wilson Gray


On Apr 5, 2005, at 5:46 PM, FRITZ JUENGLING wrote:

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> Yes, hear it all the time. My wife says it, as well as /polm/ ie
> 'poem.'
> Salem Oregon.
> Fritz J
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>>>> pulliam at IIT.EDU 04/05/05 02:43PM >>>
> A great percentage of the students in my dialects class today
> attested to this pronunciation as being very common here in the
> Chicago area.  They weren't able to give any context.  Anybody else
> heard it?
>
> Apologies if this is old news on this list.
>
> Greg
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