Silent double-L?

[Geoff Nathan]

In casual speech the orthographic double l in 'million' and 'billion' are often not pronounced:
[mIj at n, bIj at n]
but this may not be what you're looking for.

Geoff

Geoffrey S. Nathan
Faculty Liaison, C&IT
and Associate Professor, Linguistics Program
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----- "Joel S. Berson" <Berson at ATT.NET> wrote:

> From: "Joel S. Berson" <Berson at ATT.NET>
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> Are there any English words with a silent double-L in the middle?
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> Joel
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