Re: OT: YAEPT: English low vowels (was briefly: Re: Y/N variants (< OT: English a...

--- "Mark J. Reed" <markjreed@...> wrote:

> As to which vowel I have in "palm", the answer is "none of the above".
>  For me, "all" words form a lexical set unto themselves:  All, awl,
> ball, Bali, balm (doesn't rhyme with bomb), bawl, call, calm, caul,
> Collie, doll, dolly, fall, folly, gall, golly, hall, holly, jolly,
> Kali, lolly, mall, maul, Molly, Nall, pall, palm, Paul, Polly, qualm,
> Raleigh, Rawls, solly, tall, trawl, vol, wall, y'all.
>
Fascinating.

I would put Bali, Kali with bash, cash, satin,...

I would put Collie, doll, dolly, golly, holly, jolly, lolly, Molly, Polly,
solly, vol with fAther, pAsta, cOtton, ...

The rest (along with haul) I would leave together as a set.

--gary

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