Almond

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I know some people pronounce the 'l' in Almond, but I don't think it can be many. I've never heard it except from my husband and it drives me nuts (!)

So how many do?

YABU: One should pronounce the 'l' in Almond.

YANBU: Of course you bloody don't!

@SoupDragon and the people who say it has an R don't understand rhotic accents. Bless. 🙄

😂 bet you a chocolate orange that this now means a line of mumsnetters falling over themselves to state that they have always said Ar mond after reading that. in their Volvos wearing corduroy elbow pads and smelling of wet dogs

I never got that memo. Why does it have a stupid-arse L in the middle of it then making us all look stupid? Or should that be ‘making us ‘au’ look stupid?’.

Are we French? No. Are we Lady Chatterley’s lover. No.

The L is pronounced and that’s it! 😠

I say almond. Like it’s written - al-mund.
I also say lilac like lie-lac which is apparently wrong too.

Personally I think ‘ahhhhmond’ and ‘lie-luk’ sound so pompous 😂

I used to drive my mother mad doing this as a child. She would tell me off and I’d cry that it was ‘L’ so I said all-mond. I also used to have huge meltdowns around writing stories as she told me they have to begin ‘once upon a time’ and I said ‘but you can’t be upon the time? Do you mean on top of a clock?’ And I’d then write each story with a beginning such as ‘once upon a hillside’ or ‘once upon a mountain’ and ‘once upon a sand dune’ 😂😂

Marcus Wareing says "all-mond" with a big L.
I'm from Lahndan and I say Ah-mond, cor blimey etc

Ahl mond

How does anybody say ahhmond?

it makes no sense 🤷🏼‍♀️

I say Ah-mond, from the North East, but lived in Scotland for 28 years.

I didn't vote as I don't think there are any "shoulds" about this issue, but I generally pronounce the 'l'.

Fine, thanks. But you can't compare the pronunciation of a type of nut with medical names for body parts like knee, oesophagus and haemorrhoid. That's a different thread altogether.

Still AL-mond.

I remember Chris Tarrant pronouncing it as all-mond on Millionaire and I thought I'd never heard anything so weird in my life. It's like people who say pollis for police, thee-atr for theatre and sing-ging for singing.

The letter K is often silent in English.
Not so the letter L

Here I stand. 🤷🏼‍♀️

I say both these things like your second example and I am certainly not pompous. I am Scottish though.

I don't sound the L in palm or calm either. Do you @SuperfluousHen ?

It’s definitely a regional thing, I never heard anyone pronounce the L in almond until I moved to England (from Scotland).

yes, its definitely there.
Not emphatically but it’s still there.

I have never heard it said without the L before.

Me too

(Scottish)

This says the L is silent so it's settled 😆

I pronounce it Al (as in you can call me) mond to rhyme with blonde. I have heard people say Ull mund though. But only the people who pronounce room as rum.

I definitely say the L in some of those!

Al mund