What Plaza means?

1a : a public square in a city or town. b : an open area usually located near urban buildings and often featuring walkways, trees and shrubs, places to sit, and sometimes shops.

Is the L silent in guillotine?

It’s gee uh teen. It is French, not English. Gill oh teen is english mutilation of the word. As some have deduced, the double ‘l‘ in French is never sounded as an “l“.

What is a correct pronunciation?

Pronunciation is the way in which a word or a language is spoken. This may refer to generally agreed-upon sequences of sounds used in speaking a given word or language in a specific dialect (“correct pronunciation“) or simply the way a particular individual speaks a word or language.

Do you pronounce the L in Almond?

A: The “l” in “almond” was silent until very recently. That’s the only pronunciation given in my old 1956 printing of the unabridged Webster’s New International Dictionary of the English Language (2d ed.). More recent standard dictionaries say we can now properly pronounce “almond” either with or without the “l” sound.