To be appalled that DP pronounces the L in almond

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

But with even just a touch less of the 'l' bring pronounced.

Ooohh orangebird, please tel me you're Marc Almond......Say Hello Goodbye is an all time favourite

Olmond here (Nr chester). Never heard it ahmond (WTAF?). Those saying yes but what about calm, palm etc - the clue there is where the l is in the word ie nr the end not beginning.

Never mind, you lot dawn sawf pronounce it Irarq not Iraq with a short a (which is how iraaqis pronounce it, in english)

Don't get me started on bath/barrth........

It's ah-mond.

I have never heard it said any other way.

I had no idea so many pronounced the 'l' in almond. I've heard it but didn't know it was so common.

I've always pronounced it like salmon and palm. And like the audio dictionaries offered above. I'm originally northern, but left many years ago. I've lived and worked across the UK and NW Europe, and now live in SW England. But now I'm going to start offering everyone almonds to see how they say it. Mumsnet we need a geek emoticon.

English is crazily unpredictable in pronunciation as our words come from so many different languages.

But this thread is clearly appalling as I'm now wasting my evening testing the sounds on these groovy on-line dictionaries .

Are people still trying to argue that there is one correct English pronunciation for any word? That is just silly. English has so many dialects that it would be absurd to decree a single pronunciation as the only acceptable one, with all others substandard. RP no longer holds sway in the world (if, indeed, it ever did).

FTR, I pronounce the L in almond. But that isn't the "correct" way to say it. Rather, it is one correct pronunciation, perfectly normal and utterly unremarkable.

So calm like cowl with an M on the end?

two completely different sounds!

No L for me. I spell it that way obviously, but the L is silent in my pronunciation.

MaisieDoats Yes, we do. Most of what's produced in this area is sold to commercial operations but there are a few 'farm stands' where you can buy fresh almonds along with just picked stone fruits and fresh strawberries.

We love to take a Sunday drive, pick up some fruit and nuts then come home and make ice cream to put them on.

Al-mond here (al said like the name); DH says the same as me (he's Irish)

Apparently an old French word - it's development from there will depend on the influence of where it went to evolve. Don't think I've heard armond (but then I don't get het up by different pronunciations) and I'd associated all-mond with an American accent (not such which one mind)

Loving all the big weirdos who are trying to criticise others l / no l by say 'well you do/don't say the I in ', yes because all words come from the same source and follow the same rules.

Saying all that quite obviously my way of saying it is right

English is a truly horrible language to teach pronunciation for. I'm currently teaching my son to read in english and he is hating it.

I sometimes enjoy pronouncing things wrongly if it is a deeply entrenched regional thing. So I'll really go to town on the 'g' sounds in 'singing' which seems to annoy my husband. I also say 'non' rather than the correct 'nun' for NONE. Can't seem to help it now.

What annoys me is when people affect not to know that there are variations. We all know, what with global communication and, like, travel beyond our home town, that people say things differently. I had an ex from the Home Counties who remarked that he'd 'never heard it pronounced castle before' when I uttered it, correctly, without the wanky affected 'r' to turn it into 'carrrrrstle'. Twat.

No no no yp dont! You dont pronounce an r do you?

Yes she does, she may pronounce it differently to you -that doesn't mean she doesn't pronounce it.
In England most of us pronounce words ending in -ar e.g. far, car to rhyme with ah, we are still pronouncing the r. If we were not pronouncing the r it would be ca, a short sound like cat without the t.

(Although bath should have a short a not an ah/ar sound anyway)

I think it's wonderful that in this age of mass communications we retain differences! FWIW my DP and I both say ahmond, he's working class Yorkshire, I'm middle class southerner! But he has trained me
to shorten the a in bath, grass etc.

Pronouncing the L in almond is wrong - dictionary says it should be pronounced /ˈɑːmənd/.

There IS only one correct way of pronouncing it, otherwise the dictionary would give alternatives.

Yes she does, she may pronounce it differently to you -that doesn't mean she doesn't pronounce it.

She doesnt pronounce an r. She may say the word the same way as she says car, far etc but she isnt pronouncing the r in those words either.

But dictionary pronunciation says bath is pronounced bath (to rhyme with hearth) and scone (to rhyme with bone)

But regionally different pronunciations aren't wrong

MerchantofVenice the g thing? Are you a Brummie? Or at least a West Midlander.

Totally agree with the Shock! Horror! People say things differently to me it cannot be possibly!!! Obviously they must not have a TV or radio to have never heard

But dictionary pronunciation says bath is pronounced bath (to rhyme with hearth)

Nope, many dictionaries do offer a variety of pronunciations of the word almond. As they should.

Foxes yes, a sort of Brummie (south of the city, not actually Bham itself). I love all Brummie pronunciation, even though I actually don't have much of an accent having lived elsewhere for years

Jinkies, no need for a shock face I couldn't think of a rhyme for bath! Its a millionty degrees here my brain is fizzing.

Ar mond is the correct way, but I can't see that it matters or why it bothers you.

Haha, I've just realised some people pronounce hearth .....her-th, rather than har-th.

God I need to go to sleep.

That's just reminded me of something else that pisses me off (it's a pretty long list...): people who claim not to have an accent. As if their way of speaking is the standard, neutral benchmark, and everything else is somehow 'other'.