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

> [mailto:CONLANG@listserv.brown.edu] On Behalf Of ROGER MILLS
> A little adjustment for my sets:
> 1.These have /O/ [O]: All, awl, ball,  bawl, call, caul,
> fall, gall, hall,
> mall, maul pall, Paul Rawls, tall, trawl, wall, y'all; add
Saul. And
> Raleigh, I think (at least most of the time)-- also walk,
> talk (no L of
> course), balk , caulk, fault (yes L in those)
"walk" (sounds like "wok") and "caulk" (sounds like "cock") also
lose <l> for me.  "fault" still has it.  All have [A].

> 2. These have /a/ most likely [A] for me: bomb, Bali, collie,
> doll, dolly,
> folly, golly, holly, jolly, Kali, lolly, Molly, Polly, solly
(dim. of

Also, [A].

>  vol (as in U.Tenn?)
NO!!! Not another Vol fan!




> Amazing the traffic that YAEPTs generate!!!! but it's
fun.........

Well, it was until someone mentioned "Vol".