How do you pronounce "palm" ?

[Mikey]

Was watching a show about how American English keeps changing and one example was the word "palm".

It said 50 years ago 99% of Americans pronounced it "pom"

Today, more than 50% pronounce it "palm" with the L not silent.

Thought it was interesting

I say pom

How do you say palm ?

[toys2cool]

pom

[emeraldknight47]

I say "pah-l-m." I definitely pronounce the "L". It's not silent like the "P" in swimming....!

[noelani72]

well, I reckon I have always pronounced it

paul-m
or
p-awe-lm

Dictionary.com says

pahm

[Funkyterrance]

I would say I pronounce it "Pom". I had to listen to myself say it though, at first I was going to vote "palm" but evidently the "L" is only in my head .

[HardyGirl]

P ah lm

[Sowth]

I pronounce it the correct Australian way - Parm :-)

[Gorn Captain]

Pah-m.

Pah like Pa Kettle, plus an M...

I love the smell of nay-pah-m in the morning....

Pronunciation in English is the hardest thing to learn for a foreigner.
Like "I read books" (in the present tense), but "I read a book yesterday" (pronounced red).
It confuses the hell out of my wife, who is still learning.

[sprytel]

Like "alms for the poor, sir?"... but with a p.

[Brazoo]

I pronounce palm, pom, and pahm all the same way.

[Earth 2 Chris]

I admit to including the "L".

Chris

[Adam West]

Same here with the "L". The silent "L" to me seems how I would perceive someone from the New England area to pronounce it.

[raider5gt]

I pronounce it as pal-m but some people I have heard say it as paul-m,it depends where you are in the UK lol.

[Brazoo]

Reminds me of a podcast I was listening to last week where they were talking about how words change meaning.

One of the ones that surprised me was "disinterested" - the original meaning meant that if you were disinterested you didn't have any personal steak in something:

"Not influenced by considerations of personal advantage."

But I guess people kept incorrectly mixing that word and "uninterested" up - so eventually "disinterested" took on the same meaning as "uninterested".

[Mikey]

Pronunciation in English is the hardest thing to learn for a foreigner.
Like "I read books" (in the present tense), but "I read a book yesterday" (pronounced red).
It confuses the hell out of my wife, who is still learning. .

On top of that you also have a lot of "Americanisms" like Fall instead of Autumn etc .... or even how many different words there is to say "sofa"