Silent double-L?

[Joel S. Berson]

At 5/20/2010 12:25 PM, Steve Kl. wrote:
>A few of french origin, like maillot and paillard

Perhaps not even the latter?  The OED has Brit.
/{sm}pal{shti}{fata}{lm}d/, U.S.
/{sm}pælj{schwa}rd/ -- buried in which seem to be Ls: "pal" and "pael".

Joel


>On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 12:19 PM, Joel S. Berson <Berson at att.net> wrote:
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