How Do You Pronounce Almond?

[Retrochic]

Just listening to someone on the TV pronouncing Almond over and over again as AL -MOND, the AL (not ALL) very pronounced. I say ARE-MOND so which is correct?
ALL -MOND
AL-MOND
ARE-MOND

[B00]

I'm with Captain on Pg1, I say "Ol-mund"

[janbee]

It's like the letter H. Why do so many people say HAITCH?

[THECORBYLOON]

A few year ago I was looking for papers for a Mr Almond and a colleague from London was helping. The problem was she was looking for a Mr Hammond because we both pronounced the different names as Amund.

[ummmm]

Al mund.

[Peter Pedant]

dialect
ooop t North - the ay is short and the el is sounded clearly

darn sarth - ay is long ( old long, and before the gt vowel shift 1375 ) as in father and the el silent

The hindi for almond is pit-pit

[Peter Pedant]

O god do you remember that awful has-been politician sal- mond ?
Every letter pronounced. Made me shudder every time he appeared

He's going to Loooooondoooooon !

[Retrochic]

peter was there really a great vowel shift of 1375? ;-) I thought the English 'upper class' accent changed dramatically in the Victorian Era as the Prince Consort was German and the 'clipped' vowels became fashionable in Court?

[AlwaysConfused]

all mund

[Canary42]

The reference to origins in French is an interesting point. I notice that most people now pronounce Grand Prix with an English "grand" and a French "prix" - I suppose "grand pr!cks" is too contentious :)

[Retrochic]

so -people who say al-mond do you also say
caL-f
haL-f
paL-m
taL-k
waL-k?

[jourdain2]

Are-mond.

[irish-quizzer]

A mond silent L

[janbee]

ammund

[Old_Geezer]

This thread *still* going on ?!?
Wow !
Just to reiterate, I pronounce it correctly. Unlike many it seems.

[jno]

there was a vowel shift though it continued after 1375

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Vowel_Shift

I say aamond, with the stress on the first syllable. When some people have written their pronunciation as armond I wonder if this means they're pronouncing the R?

There's really no such thing as correct pronunciation in English, local variations are too strong.

[ludwig]

I vary it to be honest. It could be any of..
arl-mund, ol-mund, orl-mund. Depending what mood I'm in.

..but there's always an L in it - or, orways an L in it if you prefer.

[jno]

I always say always, possibly because it's physically easier to keep the L sound before a W than before an M. But it's not a decision I've made myself, just one I was brought up with.

Then again my mum said shee for ski, which is presumably the Norwegian pronunciation, but I've changed that one of my own accord; others may have done the same, as with many foreign words coming into the language.

[maurice]

I realize it's a bit late to come in on this, and probably nobody will ever read this, but the whole controversy reminds me of the unforgettable moment at a Sussex school when I suddenly realized some people did (do) not pronounce CALM and HARM (more or less) identically! For me they sounded like KAHM and HAHM the way most southerners at least pronounce them. Is there something wrong with my ears? The traces of the L and R in the spelling for me are still negligible. I'm passing no judg(e)ment, that's just the way I hear them. Doesn't apply of course if it happens to be a Scot(-sman) speaking, say...................

[gness]

Or an Irish woman who rolls her rrrrrrrrrrrs, Maurice...☺

[Slapshot]

you keep your rrrrrrrrrrrrs under control missus.. xx

A-mond