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gadfyl@mosquitoe.net wrote:
> For example, you claim, "The letter 'l' is quite often silent."
> But in some of the examples you give, the 'l' is weakened to a 'w'
> (psalm --> sawm, not sam).
What rubbish; it is purely a matter of accent. In British English, the "l" in
"psalm" is completely silent, serving only to lengthen the preceding "a",
sounding like "aa" in "aardvark", much as the "r" does in the same word when
spoken by Brits.
I know Americans, probably due to Noah Webster's ideas on how language should
be taught, tend to pronounce "r"s fully, it is by no means universal.
Neither rule can be stated as definite.
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