Re: OT: "Claw" (was "I'm new at this")

On Tuesday 26 November 2002 12:17 pm, you wrote:
> En réponse à bnathyuw <bnathyuw@...>:
> > or they can take a trip to london, which realises
> > velar /l/ as something in the range of [w]~[M\] (
> > hello christophe ! it finally dawned on me that this
> > is probably the sound in /belt/ [bEM\?], tho it could
> > be a fleeting [M] )
>
> LOL. Did you have a stroke of Maggelity? ;))) As for velarised /l/ becoming
> [w], [M] or [M\], that doesn't surprise me. [w] is quite common already as
> an outcome of velarised or velar /l/, and I don't see why [M\] wouldn't
> happen too, being a velar approximant. Even [M] is logical.
Hmm...actually, I pronounce it /bEU?/(when speaking colloquially).  Also,
didn'y /5/ become /w/ in the Polish L with a line through it (el/, it's
called, IIRC).  But, yes, I would say this is extreme Maggelity.

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