For anyone wondering, salmon's pronounciation comes from the French word saumon. The French word comes from the Latin word salmo. When smarty pants scholars decided on how words would be spelled in the middle ages, they thought salmon should have an L in it since the Latin word does (screw with all those dumb people who don't know Latin!)
In case anyone else who isn't knowledgeable in Latin is curious as to what "salmo" means and why they decided to name a fish after it... Salmo means Salmon.
Salmon specifically, or just fish?
Specifically salmon
Cool, thanks a lox
There's a bunch of words spelt annoyingly because those bastard scholars decided they'd like to incorporate the historic roots of words, rather than the reality of words, in their spelling.
Maybe they intended the pronunciation to change too, and for whatever reason only the spelling did.
Yeah it turns out a whole bunch of English words are spelled more like a linguistic history lesson than anything approaching a useful system of phonetics. It might as well be pictographic with letters being helpful hints at this point. I wish there could be spelling reform in the anglosphere, but it's hard enough to get people to agree within any one of the majority English-speaking countries, let alone between them.
Seriously, it´s time we just start writing it Samon instead.
So I just realized I never heard the word salmon out loud and only ever read it. Also I headpronounced it wrong all the time.
Apparently some country did not pronounce it as saemen, i'm from Malaysia and everyone just say Salmon instead, so chance is if you use the intended pronunciation in your area, no one will understand what you mean. Use what your country prefer i'd say.
Now, what about "almond". I wouldn't pronounce the L in that, but I know some people do, and I've been to some places where they misheard me because I didn't
I pronounce it with the L, but TIL i wasn't supposed to like how H is supposed to be silent in herb. Still, i don't think people understand what i'm saying if i pronounce without the L, like salmon and herb. Really just how english being localised.
AWWMUND and ERB are very American. In England I'd pronounce them both with the L and H.
And in Canada we split the difference and call them awmonds but pronounce the h in herbs
Similar in Australia, it's "ahhh-mond" and "her-b".
The "ahhh" in almond is quite lazy, like maybe you are saying "alm" but you're mumbling, it's almost as if we've collectively decided that we don't know how to pronounce it so we just say it fast and with our mouths half shut.
In my over 30 years of living in Canada I’ve never once heard anyone say awmond. Everyone pronounces the L
Do you guys pronounce the L in salmonella?
Yes. When ppl correct me. I make a show of it.
No, it's:"saaa-L-mon". You uneducated twit!