Pronunciation of "malware"

[Tom Zurinskas]

I wonder how many of us pronounce "mal" the same as "male" or "mail".
Also "pal" and "pale."
or "Sal" and "sail/sale"
That would be with short a (~mal, ~pal, ~sal) instead of long a

Tom Zurinskas, Conn 20 yrs, Tenn 3, NJ 33, now Fl 9.
See how English spelling links to sounds at http://justpaste.it/ayk





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>> <<<malware . . . mall>>> Preponderance of lexemes with <mal-> pronounced
>> with [ash]; <<a local TV newscaster (Atlanta)>> rendered <mal-> with [ah],
>> induced by elegantese (Bollinger) = hypergallicism (Brewer).
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