How is nourishment pronounced?
What does nourishment mean?
1a : food, nutriment. b : sustenance sense 3 books for intellectual
nourishment. 2 : the act of
nourishing : the state of being
nourished.
Why is the L silent in Almond?
A: The “
l” in “
almond” was
silent until very recently. Interestingly, the “
l” didn’t appear in the first syllable of amandola, the medieval Latin word from which “
almond” was derived, or in the earlier Latin amygdala, or in the still earlier Greek amygdale.
