in reply to Re^2: Ever been to Perl?
in thread Ever been to Perl?

From Theodor Fontane's translation of Shakespeare's Hamlet:
"Gebt mir den Trank; Hamlet, die Perl' ist dein"

Apart from that usage which avoids a diphtong by dropping the final vowel, I'm pretty sure that form is used in some places in Bavaria, too ;-)

The final e is dropped in composite words also, e.g. Perlmutt, Perlwein (the former containing "pearl", the latter "bubble".)

--shmem

_($_=" "x(1<<5)."?\n".q·/)Oo.  G°\        /
                              /\_¯/(q    /
----------------------------  \__(m.====·.(_("always off the crowd"))."·
");sub _{s./.($e="'Itrs `mnsgdq Gdbj O`qkdq")=~y/"-y/#-z/;$e.e && print}