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

Nik Taylor wrote:
>
> Ed Heil wrote:
> >
> > My wife (an eastern Iowan by birth) pronounces the "l" in "walk" and
> > "talk."  Sounds really weird to me.
>
> 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, my pronunciation may not be very worth knowing because I'm not a
native speaker, but I learned to pronounce "walk" with a long vowel
(something like /wo:k/) whereas I pronounce "wok" with a short vowel
(/wAk/ or /wOk/).

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