"Dad's Struck Ile" (oil--PA dialect?) (1894)

[Paul Johnston]

Yes, it sure is.  I'd suspect that you'd have found this frequently in old W
PA, since both "ile" and "bile" are found in Ulster Scots (and pretty much
all Scots), and a fair few peripheral English dialects too, all of whose
speakers contributed to the settlement mix there and in a lot of Southern
regions too.  It could be a conservative Standard feature too--oil/isle
merger was possible in cultivated 18th century speech.  "Riled up" (cf.
roil) is pretty much general American, though I don't know if this was
always true.

Paul Johnston
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> > Another one for Fred. I'm doing this while I check in on the NYC transit
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> > _THE  ORIGIN OF A FAMOUS PHRASE.; "Dad's Struck Ile"--A Romance of the
> > Pennsylvania  Oil Regions. _
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> > Chicago Daily Tribune (1872-1963).  Chicago, Ill.: Nov 7, 1894. p. 16 (1
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> Isn't this the same phenomenon as "bile" for "boil," etc.?
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> -Wilson Gray
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