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From: "Jim Wilkins" <muratlanne@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Etymological question -- "waller" a hole
Date: Sun, 1 Sep 2024 10:02:28 -0400
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"John Hickey"  wrote in message 
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On an excavator's youtube work channel out of Derby Indiana, called Dirt 
Pefect, I just heard them say that vehicles repeatedly going through a low 
area in a filed had "wallered out a ditch."
In rural West Virginia I often heard this term used to mean the 
unintentional widening of a hole, like a bolt hole, and I may have heard it 
usd to meana the intentional wiening of a hole.
What I have not heard discussed here (?) is its use to mean the wearing away 
of threads on a bolt, which I also heard in West Virginia from auto 
mechanics.
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The South has lots of localisms, such as "feature" meaning resemble, i.e. 
you feature your dad. However TV announcers in Atlanta (and Boston) speak 
like the rest of the US.