Silent double-L?

[Mark Mandel]

Would you mind translating those OED character-ID strings into something
clearer?

On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 8:51 PM, Joel S. Berson <Berson at att.net> wrote:

> 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
>
> m a m

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