Words like "folk" come from roots which have the "l" sound, but which lost it before coming into modern English. We put them BACK.
Is this true also of "palm" and "calm" and so forth? I have been heard to express my delight at the way Americans pronounce the "l" where we don't, but I did assume you'd hung onto it, where we had lost it. If you reinstated it, that's a whole different interesting thing...
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Date: 2013-08-27 11:41 pm (UTC)Is this true also of "palm" and "calm" and so forth? I have been heard to express my delight at the way Americans pronounce the "l" where we don't, but I did assume you'd hung onto it, where we had lost it. If you reinstated it, that's a whole different interesting thing...