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!

My inlaws pronounce Hannah to rhyme with spanner, which is.... interesting.

😂
same here NW.

What? How else would you say it?

All mond. But I have a mix of BE and American. My DH finds it annoying that I change accent depending on who I'm talking to but I don't do it on purpose. So would switch to ahmund automatically if the person I talked to pronounciated it like this.

I’ve honestly never heard someone pronounce almond like this! How funny, it seems plenty do though! Is it a middle class thing? 🤣

@DrZaraCarmichael eh? How else would you say Hannah?

I don't think so. Al-mund always strikes me as peculiar.

To clarify - they say hanner and spanner, not hannah and spannah.

Sounds much the same to me.

lol what?? 😂😂

In most accents in England, 'Hannah' and 'hanner' would sound identical. Unlike in most U.S., Irish or Scottish accents.

I pronounce it both ways as I never know which way is correct!

I say Al-Mund or Ol-Mund, in the midlands. Happy if any one wants to think I sound stupid for that. Rather sound a bit thick than be a judgy twat.

Shock horror I also say Mom!

How? Like psalam, balam, calam? I’ve never heard anyone pronounce the L in those words ever. Even if it were cahl m, bahl m, I’ve never heard it anywhere, not in real life or tv or movies.

Hannah - vowel ending, no R sound even when the name comes before a word beginning with a vowel. E.g. "Hannah asked..."
Not represented by an R when attempting to write the sound on MN.

Spanner - R sound is pronounced as an R, not as a vowel. This is rhotic pronunciation.

That is how you pronounce it. Like Anna with an H.

Spanner has an 'r' at the end and is sounded in my pronunciation (I'm scottish)

Hannah does not have an 'r' sound at the end

No, that is how YOU pronounce it.

Anna. Hannah. Banana. China. In my accent there is no R sound anywhere near these words.

Spanner. Miner. Loner. All end - ER with the R pronounced.

This rhotic/non-rhotic thing used to do my head in when reading to my kids. The words "scarf" and "giraffe" only rhyme if you say the first one as scaaaaaffff which we do not do in Scotland, and you'd think Julia Donaldson would know that as she lived in Glasgow for a good wee while.

I agree

If you don’t speak that like it then you probably can’t hear it, like the famous singer vs sing-ger debate that comes up every so often. But I definitely pronounce the l and it’s very soft, but so do my peers and family.

@MrMucker

Another northern ahmund appreciator here.

All-mund here