Date:  Sat, 28 Oct 1995 13:32:09 -0700

From:  Dan Moonhawk Alford <dalford[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]S1.CSUHAYWARD.EDU>

Subject: Re: folk/folklore



I'm not sure anybody's ever put it this way before, but if this is a

classic connundrum of "Is this a [true] dialect pronunciation or [merely]

the 'error' of spelling pronunciation?", there seems to be another

question lurking underneath: Can we as a literate society productively

consider "spelling pronunciation" as a legitimate dialect of English?



On Fri, 27 Oct 1995, Elaine Green wrote:



> On Fri, 27 Oct 1995, Kathleen M. O'Neill wrote:

>

> > Funny thing is, I'm pretty sure I'm pronouncing the "l" in all of them.

> > Folk, folklore, folkdance, etc.

>

>

> I also pronounce the "l" in all three.

>

> Elaine Green

> University of Georgia

>