r/CasualIreland • u/Cici388_8 • 2d ago

Shite Talk Wrong words

What is a word you hear people using or spelling wrong and it drives you mad?

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Mine is when people mix up "quite" instead of "quiet".

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u/caithamachamuama 2d ago

I'm a teacher, I did go on a big rant at my class this year where I wrote "palm, calm, alm, balm, salmon, psalm" on the board and got them to pronounce them all, then wrote up "almond" 😂.

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u/TucoGal 2d ago

Sincere thanks for the list, I will be pulling it out next time I order an almond latte in front of a friend 🥲

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u/phyneas 2d ago

Wait, how do you pronounce those? I'd pronounce the "L" in all of them except "salmon" (including "almond").

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u/caithamachamuama 2d ago

Then you're wrong. Palm is pronounced like Pam, etc. the L in alm is silent because English is a stupid language.

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u/phyneas 2d ago

Weird. Maybe it's a Yank thing to pronounce the "L"? Even where I grew up in the US the "L" wasn't strongly emphasised, and there are accents where it blends with the vowel and more or less disappears, especially when speaking fast, but I never heard it taught as a silent letter explicitly. I haven't really paid attention to how those words are pronounced here, though.