North Central American English: merging of "will" and "well"
I live in Minnesota, and I've started to notice a vowel reduction and merging of "will" and "well" in both my own speech and that of others around me. I haven't heard anyone talk about it yet, so I wanted to bring it up here.
If I say those two words in isolation, I pronounce them as:
- "will" [wɪɫ]
- "well" [wɛɫ]
However, if I say them as part of an informal blurb like these examples, I've noticed that I reduce the vowels, and pronounce them both as [wɐɫ]:
- "Text me when you get home!" "I will!"
- "Well what if they never read your email?"
I don't hear this vowel shift in other words that rhyme with those two; for example, "bill" is still [bɪɫ] and "bell" is still [bɛɫ], even in informal speech. Nor do I hear this shift in the noun form of those two words, i.e. "my grandma's will" or "that stone well in our yard".
Has anyone else noticed this?
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