Why is salmon pronounced "sam ann" and not "sal man"

[yellowcanine]

Bugs the shit out of me when I think about it.

[Stuart G]

1. Because it is ......."English.."

Now you need to know this:
..that 1100 years ago, when English was evolving,
......, my group got together(at a special fish meeting).... and decided that it would be pronounced sam onn and not sal man, because we knew that you would be asking this question today..
......Tomorrow you will probably ask why we spell it phone, and not fone..........so you now know, ......you should have been at the meeting...tuff......enouf said..Stuart G.

[Swede]

2. Why is phonetics pronounced with an f?

:shrug:

[Stuart G]

3. I see you missed that meeting too..

It was on a Phriday.. That one was about sounds...like ......I no you do not no it...Hopefully you will attend next time..

[Orsino]

4. The fatwah.

Salmon ain't no fools.

[KamaAina]

5. What the 'L' are you talking about?

:P

[KamaAina]

6. As it happens, salmon is a species of ghoti

George Bernard Shaw came up with this classic:

'gh' as in rough
'o' as in women
'ti' as in solution

thus 'fish' could be spelled 'ghoti' :rofl:

[Blue-Jay]

7. Ask Salman Rushdie.

[lost-in-nj]

8. I was talking to someone

who said



DEfrost
(but it was really cute)
instead of dafrost

like it was a 2 syllable word!!!!


lost

[SalmonChantedEvening]

9. It's not my fault I tells ya!!

The pun was lying unused in the hall and I grabbed it.

It had already been written. Honest.

[kwassa]

10. I thought it was pronounced "cod"

[Merrick]

11. the same reason we pronounce herb as "erb"

even know it has a fucking 'h' in it. Because we're dumb americans

[otherlander]

12. Salman Rushdie... Ghoti....

I'm such a dork for finding this thread so funny.
:rofl:

[jeff30997]

13. Being a French Canadian dork...

I find it even funnier.:rofl: (and I learned a couple of things too).

[applegrove]

14. I was so confused over it I once called it Sau-mon pronounced in french.