wheel barrel

[Wilson Gray]

FWIW, in East-Texas middle-class BE, "wheel barrel" is the standard
"correction" of local [hwi at l bae@]. Also, "Wilson" being a very rare
name locally, the locals always call me by the hypercorrected
[hwi at ls@n] instead of *[wi at ls@n]. I've never liked my name, so I kinda
dug being "Wheelson."

-Wilson

On Sat, Feb 23, 2008 at 2:26 PM, Dennis R. Preston <preston at msu.edu> wrote:
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>  As is the explanation complicated. Your wife is not a post-vocalic
>  /l/ vocalizer (or deleter), and her rendition is a "real" folk
>  etymology (there is no "barrow" for her but there is a "barrel"). For
>  us standard-speaking post-vocalic /l/ vocalizers (and deleters), the
>  temptation is greater since added to the folk etymological urge is
>  the phonetic evidence itself.
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>  But I think you are right than we done did this.
>
>  dInIs
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>  >Poster:       Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at YALE.EDU>
>  >Subject:      Re: wheel barrel
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>  >At 12:56 PM -0600 2/23/08, Darla Wells wrote:
>  >>Seen on the Acadiana Freecycle list:Looking for a small wheel barrel to do
>  >>yard work.
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>  >There should be an archived thread on this from a discussion awhile
>  >back.  As I mentioned at the time, my wife (from Fairfield County,
>  >CT) refers to "wheelbarrels", while I (from
>  >NYC/Rochester/California/New Haven) had never been aware of
>  >encountering the form, so if it's regional, the isogloss is very
>  >complicated.
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