Do English speakers really put an L in BOTH?

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How do you pronounce 'both'? (Grant Barrett's survey):

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScHMEwDGB-nBTmwqUmftl-IUPLF0cpZ4MjftMiYMi4tw4MyhA/viewform?formkey=dDF6VE5MM0taR0Q5aENITDBramVWdFE6MA&pli=1

My listening survey:

https://www.englishspeechservices.com/listening-survey/

Thanks to Kelly for having her tongue imaged, and thanks to Luke Nicholson of Improve Your Accent for use of his ultrasound equipment.

https://improveyouraccent.co.uk

https://www.youtube.com/c/ImproveYourAccent

0:00 Introduction

3:12 Previous discussion

4:12 Why an L?

6:04 Clips

7:30 Tig and Mae

9:47 My informal experiments

11:50 Americans' and Brits' sensitivity to 'L'

15:04 American throat L

16:55 Ultrasound tongue imaging

18:24 A hypothesis

19:49 The vowel difference

22:13 Sore thumb or not?