I've heard "bolth" from various students who come from both Washington state and Oregon, and based on dialectal surveys the students in my classes do, it pops up around 30% of the time when interviewing other Washingtonians and Oregonians. Being from Atlanta, however, I do not pronounce it that way.
Cheers!
Meredith Josey
Department of English/Linguistics
Western Washington University
Bellingham, WA. 98225
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Sent: Saturday, April 16, 2011 10:01 AM
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Subject: Re: "bolth"
My great niece in Thunder Bay Ontario says it -- or rather said it until 2
years ago when her teacher noticed that she was spelling it "bolth" -- at
the age of 14. This has become a family joke because nobody else says it
that way, and none of her friends do either, so it seems like it could be
a spontaneous emergence in her case.
ron
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University of Toronto
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On Sat, 16 Apr 2011, Claire Bowern wrote:
> Quite a few of our students say it, from various places in the midwest and
> as far east as Ithaca.
> Claire
>
> On Sat, Apr 16, 2011 at 11:49 AM, vineeta chand... <[log in to unmask]>wrote:
>
> > I was raised in northern CA, and i say it as 'bolth'. i also, according to
> > my students, say it sans the 'l', but i don't know if that is formal style
> > shifting, b/c my mom is a new englander (she says it sans the 'l'), or b/c I
> > also spend a lot of time in India & have some Indian English features at
> > times.
> > -vineeta
> > --- On *Sat, 4/16/11, James Stanford <[log in to unmask]>* wrote:
> >
> >
> > From: James Stanford <[log in to unmask]>
> > Subject: "bolth"
> > To: [log in to unmask]
> > Date: Saturday, April 16, 2011, 6:27 AM
> >
> > Dear Variationist List,
> >
> > I have a question in response to Joel Wallenberg's post about /l/ in the
> > word "both" in California (and an open-o). I definitely have the "bolth"
> > pronunciation--grew up in central Iowa. How widespread is "bolth"?
> >
> > Jim Stanford
> >
> > -Dartmouth
> >
> >
> > >Date: Mon, 11 Apr 2011 23:37:59 +0000
> >
> > >From: Joel Wallenberg <[log in to unmask]<[log in to unmask]" target="_blank">http:[log in to unmask]>
> > >
> >
> > >Subject: Re: VAR-L Digest - 7 Apr 2011 to 11 Apr 2011 (#2011-32)
> >
> >
> >
> > >I haven't ever noticed the "calm", "palm" thing, but I have met
> > Californians
> >
> > >(San Franciscans) who have /l/ following /ou/ in "both", which then
> > triggers
> >
> > >shortening of the vowel to open-o (which I believe is a productive rule in
> >
> > >my dialect before /l/ and /r/). I don't know where "bolth" comes from,
> >
> > >though I wonder if it has to do with /l/-vocalization. I know Lauren
> >
> > >Hall-Lew has studied /l/-vocalization in San Francisco...
> >
> >
> >
> > >Best,
> >
> > >Joel Wallenberg
> >
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