pom / palm

[Mark A Mandel]

On Fri, 12 Jul 2002, Anne Gilbert wrote:

#David:
#
#> I suspect that pom/palm (like, for me, bomb/[Italian] balm) is a pair
#> differentiated solely by length.  I have [bam] / [ba:m] in the second pair
#> cited.
#>
#That sounds like "amond/almond" to me.  At least it follows the same
#principle.  And I say "almond" the same way I say "palm"(like "pom").

What is "amond" with no written "l"?

-- Mark A. Mandel