Re: YAEPT alert! [Re: Not phonetic but ___???]
| From: | John Quijada <jq_ithkuil@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, April 15, 2004, 19:55 |
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Gary Shannon <wrote:
>Where I grew up in Southern California among the palm
>trees the L was quite distinctly pronounced in "palm",
>even in casual speech. I can't imagine pronouncing it
>without the L. Just sounds "lazy" to my ears
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I, too, grew up in So. California, and pronounce it with the velar L as
p_hAl_Gm in isolation, but tend to slur the velar L to a velar approximant
M\ in casual speech: phAM\m. Hearing it without the l_G or an M\ also
sounds "lazy" to my ear.
--John Q.