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Thread #57969   Message #914670
Posted By: Mudlark
20-Mar-03 - 02:01 PM
Thread Name: RD ALRT: vwls stln n Wldwd Flwr
Subject: RE: RD ALRT: vwls stln n Wldwd Flwr
In the Ozarks it's not that the vowels are missing so much as the shape is so different, i.e. while-wd flare (I still remember being puzzled by an old farmer that complained about his pigs being killed off by cow oats. Took me a while (whahl) to figure out this was not some peculiar deadly forage but a common predator with an unusual voice...coyotes)