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usage of target verb | When is "th" pronounced as "t"?
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Correct pronunciation of "Calm" Fri Mar 23, 2007 20:29 pm  Correct pronunciation of "Calm"
 

Hi

I am aware that the word "calm" should rhyme with "psalm", but I have noticed that for some reason unknown the native speakers of English make this word sort of rhyme with "Tom".

Do we agree?

Why? Shocked

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Correct pronunciation of "Calm" Fri Mar 23, 2007 21:16 pm  Correct pronunciation of "Calm"
 

Hi Tom,

Who on earth have you been listening to/talking to? Maybe it was one of Englishuser's friends with the highfalutin accents! To answer your question, I would stick to your rhyme with 'psalm'.

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Correct pronunciation of "Calm" Sun Mar 25, 2007 19:35 pm  Correct pronunciation of "Calm"
 

Hi Alan,

You wrote:

Quote:
Who on earth have you been listening to/talking to? Maybe it was one of Englishuser's friends with the highfalutin accents!

Or perhaps Tom has been listening to a speaker of North American English?

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Correct pronunciation of "Calm" Sun Mar 25, 2007 19:58 pm  Correct pronunciation of "Calm"
 

I'd describe my own "highfalutin" pronunciation of 'calm' as having a very light 'L' sound, but that slight 'L' also tends to bite the dust when I speak faster than usual. Cool

The pronunciation of 'calm' seems to vary quite a bit on this side of the pond:
http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?book=Dictionary&va=calm
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