What does sheer mean?
1 : straight up or down without a break : perpendicularly. 2 : in a complete manner : altogether. sheer.
Why is the L silent in Almond?
A: The “l” in “almond” was silent until very recently. Interestingly, the “l” didn’t appear in the first syllable of amandola, the medieval Latin word from which “almond” was derived, or in the earlier Latin amygdala, or in the still earlier Greek amygdale.
Is it pronounced hammick or hammock?
Leave how you pronounce it phonetically (fo-net-ic-ly) and where you are from.