On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 11:06 PM, Rebecca Greene <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

Here is me saying pom-palm com-calm wok-walk tok-talk in my Eastern Kentucky dialect. The second in each pair has a vocalized dark /l/, sounds like to me.

Rebecca

On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 10:42 PM, David Bowie <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

Well, assuming the person hearing me also had the cot-caught distinction, i'd be fine. The fact that i produce [l] in that word would just be a bonus.

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David Bowie

On 11/Apr/11 8:01 PM, Angus B. Grieve-Smith wrote:

On 4/11/2011 11:46 PM, Helene Neu wrote:

I grew up in Southern California. The pronunciation /pam/ still sounds
strange to me; I use a backed "a" in both words as well as a vocalized
/l/.

So there are a lot of people on this list who wouldn't be thrown off an
airplane for asking "Did you put the balm in the bag we checked?"

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