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Do *you* pronounce the L in SOLDER ? (In the USA?)
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Gyro:
Then there's the 'N' word (as in fission and fusion) which is apparently down to the poor reading and pronunciation skills of certain American Presidents.  :D
tooki:

--- Quote from: SiliconWizard on December 21, 2022, 12:56:06 am ---Yeah uh. Some people also pronounce ARM "A R M" while others pronounce "arm". I tend to be in the first category although I've heard it pronounced "arm" so often that I'll sometimes use it too. But I find it kinda silly.

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What kind of sicko pronounces it “ey are em”? :P

IIRC from an interview with one of the guys who invented it, they pronounced it like the limb.
tooki:

--- Quote from: Gyro on December 21, 2022, 11:56:37 am ---Then there's the 'N' word (as in fission and fusion) which is apparently down to the poor reading and pronunciation skills of certain American Presidents.  :D

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Many people pronounce it “nucular” (which I do not believe to be down to spelling). It is not limited to American presidents, nor just to Americans: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nucular

The presidential goof that really was shocking was the one who pronounced Bhutan and Nepal as “button” and “nipple”.  :palm:
TimFox:

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--- Quote from: IanB on December 21, 2022, 04:04:58 am ---
--- Quote from: TimFox on December 21, 2022, 03:28:05 am ---Even in American English, there is a pronunciation difference between "calm" and "cam".

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That makes me think of the "Mary", "marry", "merry" convergence, and wonder if there is any part of America where calm and cam sound the same?

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I don’t think so.

“Calm” vs “cahm” is one thing (presence or absence of L, but same vowel), while “cam” has a different vowel.

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Alphabetical spelling is an encoding of pronunciation.
In the original Latin, this encoding was probably efficient (I am not fluent in Latin).
As the Latin alphabet spread to other languages, including non-Romance languages (Germanic, etc.), the encoding became less consistent.
"Calm" vs "cam" is an example of a silent letter used in this encoding to differentiate between two different sounds, neither of which includes the "L" consonant.
IanB:

--- Quote from: pdenisowski on December 21, 2022, 10:46:23 am ---I've lived in the Carolinas almost my entire life and if anything, I would say the difference between "calm" and "cam" is even greater here than in other parts of the United States (due to the "twang", i.e. nasalization, in "cam")

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Oh. I'm used to hearing Dan pronounced as "Day'en". Are you saying cam would be pronounced like "cay'em"? I suppose that would be right.
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