postvocalic /l/

Grant Barrett gbarrett at WORLDNEWYORK.ORG
Sat Mar 6 00:57:53 UTC 2010


That reminds me of a recent query a listener to the radio show sent
about people pronouncing "both" as "bowlth." There are instances
online where it was spelled that way, apparently without irony or
other metaintention, as well as a couple of Facebook groups and the
usual commentary and opinions.

http://bit.ly/a7At5z

Grant Barrett
grantbarrett at gmail.com

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