Re: USAGE: pronouncing "l", "needs washed"

On Tue, 7 Dec 1999 22:36:32 -0500 Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> writes:
> Hmm, so if you leave out the "l" in "walk", does that mean it's a
> perfect homophone for "wok" for you?  To me, they're *near*
> homophones,
> because I say /wAlk/ and /wAk/.
.

Well, i say /wOk/ for "walk" and /wak/ for "wok"...although "calm" is
/kam/, so {al} isn't always /O/.

-Stephen (Steg)
 "Eze-guvdhab wa'hrikh-a tze, / "zhoutzii wa'esh," i eze-mwe."


> > But the thing I don't get is that a few years ago, I first heard
> the
> > construction, "that shirt needs washed" from my wife.
>
> That IS bizarre.  I don't think I've every heard a construction like
> that.
>
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