To be appalled that DP pronounces the L in almond

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I say armond.. Am I wrong? Almond sounds wrong..

I find word pronunciation fascinating, and believe it's not wrong or right, just local. In my area people say AL mond, they also say caLm, and tuth ( I say tooth- northern)

I have always said Almond then I met DP and he laughed at me! He's an Armonder. I still say it my way I think both are fine.

All-mund.

Hazey, you are also pronouncing alms wrong in that case.

Pronounced ah/mond. There is no r in the word but then some people pronounce the word "drawing" as "draw/ring" which is ridiculous. The BBC do it and they should jolly well know better. Grrr

I would pronounce alms as ahms.

Pronunciation and derivation are both fascinating, though!

Yes that's the standard pronounciation Dowager

Crikey, thought I was a "well brought up gal", I'm a scon rather than scoone, Barth rather than Bath but always an L in almond........clearly I stand corrected:)

It's ahmond, but I wouldn't be appalled by al-mond.

YANBU

I say Ah-mond.

you say potato, I say patarto

So it isn't silent as a rule in alm words?

Otherwise it would sound like Armanac and Armost.....mind alms with a silent l sounds like arms.

I get so confused- everyone in my family laughs when I say it. Now I just say "that nut that I can't pronounce" I think it's because I pronounce it All mond. Don't know why!!

No it's not a set rule, like most of English. Some AL words the L is silent (like salmon, alms, almond) and some not (like almighty, almanac, walrus).

I pronounce the L in balm, Palm, almond, calm....

But not salmon

Ah-mond, with the ah- the same as in alms, palm and calm. Silent 'l' the lot of them.

Maisie, I'm Irish too. So I would definitely say 'faR'. I will admit, at the risk of sounding ignorant, I'm baffled by English accents that insert an 'r' where there's none. Or don't pronounce the r (eg faah). And I'm sure my accent sounds bizarre to English people. For example, I say 'barrter' instead of 'bahtah' (that's the first word I came up with off the top of my head). We share a language, yet sometimes we seem to speak entirely different languages.

mind alms with a silent l sounds like arms.

Yes, the first time I heard 'alms for the poor', I wondered what the poor wanted with extra arms. My Dad explained.

Obviously, I have a non-rhotic accent.

I don't think I've ever heard the L pronounced in calm - is that an Irish accent? Is it two syllables?

I'm baffled by English accents that insert an 'r' where there's none. Or don't pronounce the r (eg faah)

Me too. (Also irish) i hate (sorry everyone!) seeing people writing bath as barth (and the rest) because the people who do that ^dont even pronounce the imaginary 'r' they have added to the spelling! It irrationally bugs me.

This is like the first time I heard a posh person talking about going to an 'Oction'....it took me ages to work out that we were going to an auction.

Youve blown my tiny mind.

Ah-mond. Irish here too.

Splendide - we most certainly to not pronounce the l in calm!

And where do all those rogue "r"s come from?

"Do not"

It's pronounced more bahth than barth in non-rhotic.

I'm a kiwi and we pronounce it baaaahth, whereas RP English would pronounce it more bahhhhhhth.