My dad pronounces the "h" in "vehicle" because he thinks it's cute. Does this drive you nuts? Other examples?

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• "Roll" = Royal
  "Foll" = Foil
  "Line" = Lion
  "Jeet" = Did you eat? (To which I said, "No, Jew?")

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  by krazymike on September 30th, 2009

• Lmao!

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  by Safarii on September 30th, 2009

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• technically the L in salmon is not a silent L, it's a regional dialect preference..I've lived places where it is pronounced.

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  by Occams Electric Razor on September 30th, 2009

• To be grammatically correct, the L is silent. It's true some populations mispronounce it.

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  by Thriftymaid on September 30th, 2009

• True, some do. My mother-in-law pronounced almond as "ammond," which I had never heard before. I've assumed it was a regionalism from her part of the Big Apple.

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  by Sandman on September 30th, 2009

• Sandman yes I agree it is a regionalism, though language should follow spelling, I once read there is a change that occurs when people hear a word and read a word. Salmon should be pronounced with the L sound like in salmonella, but like some regions say code instead of cold it fluctuates I suppose.

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  by Occams Electric Razor on September 30th, 2009

• You only have to check the dictionary to see that the L in salmon is definitely silent. http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/salmon

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  by Thriftymaid on September 30th, 2009

• She's right, Occam. As a retired professor of English and linguistics, I've done the research.
  The L in salmon was sounded in the 17th century, but before 1800 it was officially dropped. "SaLmon" is the regionalism; "sammon" is correct.

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  by Sandman on October 1st, 2009

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• I've always thought that was an ethnic thing, along with "ahnnt" for aunt.

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  by Sandman on September 30th, 2009

• Could be Sandman.

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  by Over and Out on September 30th, 2009

• A friend says "ahnt" for aunt out in public, but when she's home and thinks no one can hear, she says "ant" like everybody else.

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  by Sandman on September 30th, 2009

• I always wondered how there's any hope for kids to spell correctly, if they don't even speak properly.

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  by Over and Out on September 30th, 2009

• Barb, I'll admit that English has a shipload of screwy spellings. But you're right; if they can't say it, they can't learn to spell it.
  I taught English in college for 42 years, and I've watched the average level of spelling drop almost out of sight.
  One glaring example is "our." Many Freshmen spell it as "or", "ire", "are", "ar"; and they turn it in for a grade AFTER peer correction and rewriting.

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  by Sandman on October 1st, 2009

• It must be really hard to teach when so many students even come to college without knowing the basics.
  I'm not sure what the "fix" is either ... especially now with all the texting abbreviations. I think good grammar and spelling are just fatalities of the computer age ... sad.

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  by Over and Out on October 1st, 2009

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• The ell it is!

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  by Sandman on September 30th, 2009

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• yeah, that's it. But it sure makes traveling the states interesting.

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  by vincentcent on October 1st, 2009

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