What's happened to "L"? (Columbus: living in, rain, town)

[Transplant99]

I've noticed that a lot of people from Columbus seem to have beef with the letter "l" to the extent that they'll omit it from words. For example, "fold" is pronounced "fo'ed" and "hold" is pronounced "ho'ed." It sounds like how a little kid with a speech impediment would speak. Is that just part of the local accent?

[Natural510]

I haven't noticed it (living in Columbus as a kid maybe it's ingrained), but Ohio has a lot of those regional anomalies throughout the state. Like here in the Miami Valley, they add "s" to a lot of proper nouns unnecessarily (like "I'm going to Krogers") or adding "l" to words ending in "w" (like " I'm going to drawl it up").

[2020's YouTube Vlog]

Originally Posted by Transplant99

I've noticed that a lot of people from Columbus seem to have beef with the letter "l" to the extent that they'll omit it from words. For example, "fold" is pronounced "fo'ed" and "hold" is pronounced "ho'ed." It sounds like how a little kid with a speech impediment would speak. Is that just part of the local accent?

I never noticed that. But I do notice that people from Ohio, specifically Columbus, tend to not use the letter "M" around Thanksgiving week.

I am from the Northeast so I'm not sure why they do that, but they seem to do it every year

[schmave]

As a Columbus native, I've never noticed with the OP describes.
As for what 2020's describes, that's an Ohio State fan thing during Michigan week. Even as a Buckeye fan, I think it's juvenile but that must be what some people need for the spirit of the rivalry.

[on3]

Never noticed it either. Maybe TC had a conversation with someone in one of them "2 story town" parts of Cbus that never learned how to speak correctly?