I just link them to my blog now because it was too much to explain. joeystanley.com/blog/stories...

I wish I had an informed question that asked how many I've studied! I can give a straightforward answer to that one.

This is a very informal survey, but also kind of a pilot to see if such a categorization task is feasible in Qualtrics. I'm kinda pleased to see how remarkably clean the results are, despite reports of many mergers among these words. Perhaps people are influenced most by spelling?

Update. 50% more people and I took out the problematic "foal" word because it was on there twice. The most common trend is a clean three-way split between /ul/, /ol/, and a somewhat merged /ʊl/-/ʌl/, with evidence of separation in that last group along historical lines.

This is brought to you by my brother who just presented at the big vexillology conference this weekend in Minnesota about sound/color-symbol correspondence and compared BAG-raising to cool semiotics stuff.

We really missed an opportunity when we chose to call it BAG-raising instead of FLAG-raising.

NB LaTeX can do this too with the \include command and maybe a \SchoolName that you reset for each letter. (This is how I make different versions of my CV for different things without having to make the same change in multiple docs every time I add something.)

Yeah I had a “public-facing” one that only had published things, and a “job application” version with had papers under review or in progress.

Oh y’know what I think that’s right. I guess it’s also interesting that it didn’t pattern with the other /ol/ words though!

In case anyone is curious about the results from that last question. /ol/ and /ul/ are pretty internally consistent and quite separated. /ʊl/-/ʌl/ merger is pretty common. And I have no idea what's up with "foal."