so do you pronounce it ARMONDS or ALMONDS.
Almonds all the way for me.

Almonds

That's just nuts.

Dyche or ditche

I'm agate, Almonds.

Armonds - just as I would pronounce almshouse as armshouse.

claretnproud wrote:so do you pronounce it ARMONDS or ALMONDS.
Almonds all the way for me.

Almonds. Not sure why anybody would pronounce it armonds unless they think thats how you spell it.

Olmunds

spadesclaret wrote:Armonds - just as I would pronounce almshouse as armshouse.

You're a posh sort though.

Bin Ont Turf wrote:You're a posh sort though.

Well, yes.

How do you pronounce alms?

PS - may we please dispel this rumour that I am posh. If in doubt just ask !Aiboforcen.

Wow!

I was in the charity shop today after work and almond oil came up in a conversation, she said "you could try using armond oil"....I left the shop toying with both alternative pronunciations in my head - armond almond armond almond - I had never ever before given this a thought.

I've only just got my chores done and decided to Google almond oil to see if it would do the required job, still playing around with both pronunciations in my head. As I was searching I opened another tab up to see what was going on on Uptheclarets and saw this thread straight away.

This kind of thing is happening to me way way way too frequently these days

Spades has the correct British pronunciation. Ol-monds is the American way of saying the word.

It's definitely Almond.

I also used to go out with a girl from Chicago who introduced me to the American pronunciation of Apricot. WTF.

Bin Ont Turf wrote:You're a posh sort though.

You've clearly never met her. I've known her for more than 50 years - and never once did Spades even approximate "posh" !

!aiboforceN wrote:You've clearly never met her. I've known her for more than 50 years - and never once did Spades even approximate "posh" !

There's no need to overdo it!

My Alse.

martin_p wrote:Spades has the correct British pronunciation. Ol-monds is the American way of saying the word.

What's the correct British pronunciation of Burnley?

Now try telling someone who was born and bred there what it is.

one word that throws a spanner in the works is PALM. almost no one calls it palm pronouncing the L. The yanks seem to pronounce the l as in arnold palmer .

That Aussie bloke on Masterchef just pronounced it armond.

take no notice of him, all his relatives were convicts.

One of the funniest things I seen in my family is when my brother was dishing out some chocolates one Christmas. My dad asked him if there was any nuts in it, my brother inspected the packaging, turning it over, reading the the ingredients and small print and eventually replied, “I don’t know”.

My dad beginning to get frustrated snapped back and asked “well, what does it say on the packet?!” My brother looked again carefully and the front and replied “all monds”

Walton wrote:It's definitely Almond.

I also used to go out with a girl from Chicago who introduced me to the American pronunciation of Apricot. WTF.

The wife's a Scot, she says appricut. Unculutred wench.

I believe the Marc Almond rumour might be fake news

The correct way to say it is "Aul-mond" - so the L is mentioned, just not as you'd expect. It's still mentioned though if you say it correctly.

It's not "Armond" though, is it? It's more "åmond", no?

ColonelCool wrote:The correct way to say it is "Aul-mond" - so the L is mentioned, just not as you'd expect. It's still mentioned though if you say it correctly.

OED says the 'l' is silent.

thatdberight wrote:It's not "Armond" though, is it? It's more "åmond", no?

That's even worse. I say more like "Arlmond". But Spades is meant to be an ex teacher and even she doesn't say it correctly, so what hope have the rest of us got.

ColonelCool wrote: But Spades is meant to be an ex teacher and even she doesn't say it correctly, so what hope have the rest of us got.

1. Meant to be? What is that meant to mean?

2. How do you know I don't say it correctly? I simply answered the OP's question which gave me a choice of two answers.

Arlmund

spadesclaret wrote:1. Meant to be? What is that meant to mean?
2. How do you know I don't say it correctly? I simply answered the OP's question which gave me a choice of two answers.

You know you've hit a nerve when...

IanMcL wrote:Arlmund

You know you've hit a nerve with somebody who blows smoke up a person's backside when..

... he has piles?

"Armond" - not for me, but what about:
Calm, embalm, palm, psalm, etc., so it would be quite feasible.

Saw an ad on TV the other night - 2 American teenagers crash the car while arguing about whether it's Armunds or Amunds

The crash did not appear to be fatal unfortunately

nil_desperandum wrote:"Armond" - not for me, but what about:
Calm, embalm, palm, psalm, etc., so it would be quite feasible.

There's no 'r' in the pronunciation of any of those unless you're from Baarth. It's a long 'a' sound.

thatdberight wrote:There's no 'r' in the pronunciation of any of those unless you're from Baarth. It's a long 'a' sound.

You're totally correct. A more phonetic way would perhaps be to write "C- ah- m". (Was going to post similar earlier).
However, the main point is that the "l" isn't pronounced in any of those examples, so there's no reason why it has to be in "almond".

nil_desperandum wrote:You're totally correct. A more phonetic way would perhaps be to write "C- ah- m". (Was going to post similar earlier).
However, the main point is that the "l" isn't pronounced in any of those examples, so there's no reason why it has to be in "almond".

Sorry. I understand now and agree. I'm going to keep saying åmond.

spadesclaret wrote:Well, yes.

How do you pronounce alms?

PS - may we please dispel this rumour that I am posh. If in doubt just ask !Aiboforcen.

Same way as legs ('egs).

While we're on the subject why do we (correctly) pronounce book 'buck' but we don't pronounce boot as 'butt'?

houseboy wrote:While we're on the subject why do we (correctly) pronounce book 'buck' but we don't pronounce boot as 'butt'?

It's not 'buck' (rhymes with 'luck', 'chuck') but a separate sub-group of 'u' & 'oo' words like wolf, sugar. Who knows why. The roots are quite dissimilar so they probably dragged some of their origin with them. Most people these days seem to say 'booʔ' anyway so the vowel sound is the least of our problems.

I say it as 'allmond'. The L is definitely not silent when I say it. In fact, I say, "Almond with an L".

I don't really.

Didn't they sing a song about a long haired lover from Liverpool?

thatdberight wrote:It's not 'buck' (rhymes with 'luck', 'chuck') but a separate sub-group of 'u' & 'oo' words like wolf, sugar. Who knows why. The roots are quite dissimilar so they probably dragged some of their origin with them. Most people these days seem to say 'booʔ' anyway so the vowel sound is the least of our problems.

As someone who has done a good deal of writing I find language fascinating. Even as an 'insider' I think the English language must be awful to learn, having so many words spelt the same but with different meanings and emphases. I asked a guy once what he thought of semantics and he said he had nothing against Jews.
My personal favourite is the word Psychotherapist: if you change the emphasis it becomes Psycho the Rapist, which seems kind of apt really.

Aah, fun with words.

Aa-rlmunds

So both. At the same time