Silent L words The letter L is silent in the words including should, could, would, half, calf, chalk, talk, walk, folk, and yolk.
L is also silent in could, should, would, as well as in calf and half, and in chalk, talk, walk, and for many people in calm, palm, and psalm.
We find it in lots of different words, and they are generally very common words. Many students try to pronounce these Ls, but in all these words, the L is completely silent. In walk, chalk, and talk, the L comes after an A, and the vowel is pronounced like a short O.
Rule: L is not pronounced after the vowels a, o and u. For example: calm, would, salmon. The exceptions to the rule are: halo, bulk, sulk, hold, sold, fold and mould.
So why is it so hard to say the 'L' in words in English such as 'ball', when you already have this sound in your language as well? The reason is because there are differences in how we pronounce the 'L' sound in English. There are actually two different 'L' sounds in English called the light 'L' and the dark 'L'.
Silent L words
The letter L is silent in the words including should, could, would, half, calf, chalk, talk, walk, folk, and yolk. The silent L in the word salmon is also pretty fishy.
The answer to the question of whether or not the “l” is silent in the word “lip balm” is no. The “l” is actually pronounced in this word, though sometimes it may be difficult to hear. Lip balm is a type of waxy, usually flavored, substance that can be applied to the lips to soothe and moisturize them.
/l/ is pronounced with a large flap of the tongue. The best way to make it clear that you aren't pronouncing /r/ is to bend your tongue as far back as you can in your mouth, and flick it forward as you say /l/.
/tAWk/phonetic spelling.
This is probably one of the most commonly mispronounced words in the English language. The r in February has been dropped so that it is almost always pronounced Febuary–without the r.
Both the OED and M-W list the silent “l” as the first pronunciation and the “l” pronunciation as a variant for the following words: alms, palm, psalm, and qualm. OED gives only the silent “l” pronunciation for salmon, balm, and calm.
Letter 'b' is silent in 'plumber'. Letter 'b' is generally not pronounced if letters 'm' and 'b' occur together in a word. Examples : plumb, comb, tomb, plumber etc. This rule is applicable when letters 'm' and 'b' are the parts of the same syllable.
The word comes ultimately from the Latin salmon, but we got it by way of French, as we did with so many other food words. The French, as was their wont, had swallowed up the Latin L in their pronunciation, so by the time we English borrowed the word, it was saumon, no L in the spelling and so no L in the pronunciation.
In the word, 'scissors', the 'c' is silent. You don't get to hear the pronunciation of the 'letter c'.
And the letter 'h' is silent in the word 'ghost'.
Farm-raised salmon is naturally gray; the pink color is added. Wild salmon is naturally pink due to their diet which includes astaxanthin, a reddish-orange compound found in krill and shrimp. Farm-raised salmon, however, eat whatever farmers throw into their pen.