From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!floyd!vax135!lime!houti!kdh Newsgroups: net.nlang Title: Re: often, government, toward(s) Article-I.D.: houti.129 Posted: Tue Jul 13 12:51:45 1982 Received: Wed Jul 14 01:57:42 1982 Another class of silent/not silent lettered words are the infamous "lm" words, i.e. "palm" and "calm". Having been brought up by parents from the Middle Atlantic area (oh all right, New Jersey), I pronounce the "l"'s. Imagine the trauma when, having moved to southern Virginia during grammer school, I received an "F" on a test whose object was to circle words with silent letters. The word list included those above, plus "often" and a few others. Add to this the additional confusion when my all-powerful and all-knowing parents (I was quite young at the time) didn't think I was wrong. Perhaps this early trauma accounts for my usual state of confusion today..... SAVE THE MINDS OF OUR CHILDREN!!!! (Send money today) Kevin Hunter (houti!kdh) P.S. Please, no flames from NJ'ians who don't pronounce the 'l's. P.P.S. I pronounce it "twords" (How's that for middle of the road!)