To be appalled that DP pronounces the L in almond

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

Do you al-munders pronounce salmon sal-mon?

And the 'l' in walk and could.....

It amazes me when people say daft stuff like"if it was meant to be a-r-mond then it would have an 'r' in it" like they've not yet twigged that English is incredibly un-phonetic!

It's ar-mund of course. Hearing Al-mond makes me wince a little. Commiserations, OP

It amazes me when people say daft stuff like"if it was meant to be a-r-mond then it would have an 'r' in it" like they've not yet twigged that English is incredibly un-phonetic!

Nods in agreement.

You're all crazy. It's almond (pronounce the l) and pronounced differently from salmon because it's got a bloody big 'd' at the end.

I think the issue can be the random r's added or taken away from a word depending on accent
(Shrugs)

Dh says Ol'mund, I say ah'mnd.

We already fight over Scone and scoooooone. Will the cracks in this marriage ever heal?

It's pronounced ahmond here in Australia.

I've only heard ahl-mond from American Youtubers haha.

Definitely pronounced with the L in our family. I'm in NZ and never heard it pronounced as Ahmond or Armond.

Almond.

But then I pronounce the L in Calm, Palm.

And it's Scone to rhyme with cone.

I say oll-mund
I'm a Londoner.

Ooh I love these pronunciation threads! UK accents are endlessly fascinating to this Australian. I say ah-mnd (armond would sound like this too). Pronunciation is boringly uniform(ish) here, you're so lucky to have regional variations.

It always amuses me though, how every time it comes up people profess not to understand the rhotic/non-rhotic differences, or act amazed that words aren't pronounced phonetically. Maybe they don't get out much?

Hang on with the whole 'salmon' as the example of why it's ah-mond, do people say salmon sah-mon?

Wait should have written that sar-mon.

I'm an ol-mund

And on the salmon front, I'm a sammun

I'm Manc.

ol-mund and cal-m and I am fron the shires
scone is sconn
salmon is sammon
walk and calm - all have the 'l' in there !

Also lots of accents words like calm, palm, balm the l is there; it is however a very soft back of the throat swallowed l so not overt: evidently.

It's a silent L afaik.

I say ah-mund. And it's sah-mun. (And cahm, pahm, walk,...)

I am always thrown for a loop by people inserting Rs into their pronunciation examples. I have a rhotic accent and in my head those Rs are all pronounced, so y'all sound like pirrrrates.

Almund... But 'sugared ahlmund'...
Salmon = samun
Calm = cahm

walk and calm - all have the 'l' in there !

'Calm' with an 'l'.... Ok, but rather over-spoken and I've never heard it unless perhaps it's the softest of 'l's, but an audible 'l' in walk ....really? Are you noting the letter in the word and pronouncing it as you think that must be 'proper'? It's not, it's English and there's no expectation that words are sounded phonetically! How do you pronounce 'enough' I wonder?

The 'L' is definitely silent. I've never met anyone who says al-mond.

www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/almond

DH and I are both Arl-munders, and neither of us can recall anyone ever saying Ahmund. So maybe it is a regional thing (we are SW /Wales).

Ohl-mund here!

Btw, some areas of the SW actually say the 'l' in calm, Palm etc (I dont). As do some Liverpudlians I guess.

I'm with you OP. Silent L. I'm not sure what DH says - presume the same as me - guess we don't discuss them much

I say ah-mund, my Dad says all-mund, and DH says al-mund.

Have never heard anyone pronounce the l in calm, palm or walk.

I guess this could depend on your regional accent.

However, I work in the food industry and nuts are mentioned a lot.
I have never heard from a single colleague, supplier, client or customer a pronunciation of the L. Always pronounced ah-mond.

This applies to the uk and also when I moved overseas.