How do you pronounce almond?

[BiscuitLover3678]

How do you pronounce it and where are you from?

Ahmund
Allmund
Armund

I just asked DH 3 times and he said each of the above.

He's now very confused.

Don't ask me, I say CoriAHnder

Ah-mund, Scotland

In fact, I remember a Californian telling me a joke I didn't get "why is there no 'l' sound in 'almond'? Because when we harvest them, we shake the 'ell out of them!".
It wasn't a great joke even if you knew about the silent 'L', which I didn't!

@ShowOfHands i nearly opened the rhoticity can of worms but decided I couldn't be bothered arguing about it again!

@Egghead68

The 'l' in almond is silent. Just like it is for alms

And as it is in “walk” and “talk” etc.

You what

Thanks for the rhoticity links but I still don't understand. Sounds like that's to do with pronunciation of words with letter r in them.
But almond doesn't have an r. So surely the debate is only whether l is silent or not?

Or Am I missing something?

They say ar-mond to convey ah-mond because to them an ar sound is ah. Like in The Sound of Music 'Fa, a long long way to run' In Julie Andrews' accent the note Fa sounds like far.

Because people are spelling the word phonetically, how they pronounce the word @patritus ie they are writing ar because they pronounce the first syllable of almond to rhyme with far both of which sound like "ah" in a non rhotic accent.

@patritus

Thanks for the rhoticity links but I still don't understand. Sounds like that's to do with pronunciation of words with letter r in them. But almond doesn't have an r. So surely the debate is only whether l is silent or not?

Or Am I missing something?

Having spent years thinking people really did all face accents that added an r, turns out in areas people don’t roll their r’s they add them to indicate a long vowel sound, the exact same sound people who do roll their r’s would write ah for.

Al-mund- Devon but have moved about

It's like the l in 'calm' and 'palm' which both rhyme with farm (in my accent) which is why people are talking about the 'r'.

Al Mond anglesey

I pronounce it ‘wrong’ according to my Ex-DH:

Me: AHL - mund
Ex: ALL-mund

Ah mund - Scottish

Al mund - Ireland

Ah mond - London but parents from Yorkshire and Gloucestershire

Haha

R-mond (Hertfordshire)

Al-mund. West of Scotland

Ol-mund. Originally from north west.

@ShowOfHands

@picklemewalnuts

In fact, I remember a Californian telling me a joke I didn't get "why is there no 'l' sound in 'almond'? Because when we harvest them, we shake the 'ell out of them!". It wasn't a great joke even if you knew about the silent 'L', which I didn't!

Oll-mund - Manchester

Ahh-mund (Londoner)

Husband is Oxfordshire and said al-mund when I met him.

But says it properly now as everyone else at uni (in Scotland with a mix of folks from all over the UK) thought it was really weird!

Almond (SE)

Arl mund