"folk" with an L

[Wilson Gray]

True, it's a well-known phenomenon, but it's rare that you actually
hear it. My late stepfather is the only person that I've ever heard
use this pronunciation in real life, as opposed to TV, movies, radio,
etc., as I head into my mid-seventies. I'm with Tom.

-Wilson

On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 3:16 AM, Michael Covarrubias
<mcovarru at purdue.edu> wrote:
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> On Mar14, 2010, at 3:12 AM, Tom Zurinskas wrote:
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>> My father, raised in Conn. said the word, film, as "filum" ~filum.  He's the only person I've ever heard say it that way.
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> this is a well known pronunciation.
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-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"––a strange complaint to
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