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      In case anyone else who isn’t knowledgeable in Latin is curious as to what “salmo” means and why they decided to name a fish after it… Salmo means Salmon.

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      There’s a bunch of words spelt annoyingly because those bastard scholars decided they’d like to incorporate the historic roots of words, rather than the reality of words, in their spelling.

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        Maybe they intended the pronunciation to change too, and for whatever reason only the spelling did.

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      Yeah it turns out a whole bunch of English words are spelled more like a linguistic history lesson than anything approaching a useful system of phonetics. It might as well be pictographic with letters being helpful hints at this point. I wish there could be spelling reform in the anglosphere, but it’s hard enough to get people to agree within any one of the majority English-speaking countries, let alone between them.

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    There is a logic behind this, but you kinda have to be a linguistics nerd to know.

    L and W are pretty similarly pronounced in many languages including English. Over time, this plus the fact that some might have difficulty speaking the language (still learning, have a lisp, low literacy, etc) leads to Ls becoming Ws in places.

    Long story short, L took the L sometimes in English

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    So I just realized I never heard the word salmon out loud and only ever read it. Also I headpronounced it wrong all the time.

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      Apparently some country did not pronounce it as saemen, i’m from Malaysia and everyone just say Salmon instead, so chance is if you use the intended pronunciation in your area, no one will understand what you mean. Use what your country prefer i’d say.