opportYOUnity

[Tom Zurinskas]

> But I believe I pronounce "male" and "mail" identically, something
> like a shortened form of "may-ull" or "may-ill

If "ull" is the vowel sound as in "bull" or "wool" it's ~ool in truespel phonetics where ~oo foespels the "short oo" sound.  It occurs more often then most realize.  For instance "l" endings like "triple" ~tripool, "trouble" ~trubool.  It's foespeld by schwa usually.

Tom Zurinskas, USA - CT20, TN3, NJ33, FL5+
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> Date: Wed, 24 Dec 2008 09:26:02 -0500
> From: Berson at ATT.NET
> Subject: Re: opportYOUnity
> To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
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> Poster: "Joel S. Berson"
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> At 12/24/2008 07:43 AM, Tom Zurinskas wrote:
>>Nor ~Klous as well, but I assume that's not an American dialect
>>pronunciation.
>
> Isn't it the Pennsylvania Dutch American dialect
> pronunciation? :-) (I was joshing when I suggested it.)
>
> But I believe I pronounce "male" and "mail" identically, something
> like a shortened form of "may-ull" or "may-ill", and differently from
> "mal". (Of course, in the 18th century it was "malefeasance",
> although I don't know how that was pronounced.)
>
> Joel
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