Re: YAEPT alert! [Re: Not phonetic but ___???]

--- jcowan@REUTERSHEALTH.COM wrote:
> Mark J. Reed scripsit:
>
<snip>
> > Ah.  What about the [l] in PALM?  Is that also
> part of the distinction?
>
> No.  Do you actually articulate any [l] there?  I
> don't.
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

> This set contains
> very few native words; in particular, "all" and
> friends are part of the
> THOUGHT set, which I suspect you actually collapse
> with PALM (I don't, but
> most Americans do).
I definitely group PALM with ALL, CLOTH and THOUGHT,
but LOT?  Boy, that vowel sound is WAY different in my
neck of the woods.  LOT goes with ON and F(A)THER,
those three being utterly indistinguishable from each
other.

WOW, I never realized mouth noises could be so
interesting! ;-)

--gary