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Default Etymological question -- "waller" a hole

Lloyd E. Sponenburgh wrote:
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Actually Lloyd , the term "waller a hole out" is in common usage
both in
the northern Utahaha area where I grew up and in west Tennessee where
we've lived the last 30 years or so , also in the southern Ozarks
where I now live


How does that disagree with what I said. "Regional" can cover a lot
of regions.

If someone has any sort of drawl, they're likely to 1) come from a
region where most folks have one, too, and 2) are likely to use that
term instead of "wallow".

LLoyd


Ah , but Utahaha is famous for it's "neutral" accent . And yet ... I'd
guess dialectic oddities can be spread out over a number of geographic
locales , depends on just where the "settlers" in a particular region came
from .
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