Terlet

[Alison Murie]

On Mar 22, 2010, at 2:28 PM, Joel S. Berson wrote:

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> I think I was unclear.  If someone's dialect told him instead of
> "toylet" to say "terlit" *and* he was a-rhotic, what would he say
> instead?  It was half a joke and half a question if there was any
> such pronuciation.
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> Joel
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As far as the radio exploitation of this dialect went, the exchange
was reciprocal: girls became "goils" and boils became "berls."  A-
rhoticity was not consistent.
AM

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