Which part of "silent" don't you understand?
the l is not silent in most of those, its more often pronounced as an r
balm would be bam if the l was silent, but its not, its barm, carm
almond, funny, I know two ways of pronouncing that
almond and armond, i don't think its pronounced as ammond very often
palm, could be parm, but I don't think it could be pam
tork
notice walk is not pronounced the same as work? wark
choork
yolk is interesting, the l modifies the o, so yoke instead of yok,
salmon, some people do pronounce this with a silent l, others pronounce the l, salmon or sammon
folk foke,
half, I guess you could pronounce it "haff" or you could pronounce it "harf"
carf, (i suppopse you could pronounce it kaff
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polka is pronounced polka, damn, i suppose some pronounce it poker or pokker, again that comes back to the solder vs soder vs sodder debate
malcolm, two ls which are pronounced as far as I can tell
Lincoln... i suppose there could be a silent l there... in some accents
colonel, again, the l is not silent, merely modified, otherwise we'd be speaking about connels or coonels... hmmm, actually I suppose some accents do say coonel or connel
Could, fairly silent, kood
would, again, silent, wood
should, again, shood
the majority of those do NOT have silent L's
comes back to the whole damn point, regional variation
deal with it
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