The Evolution of the Zombe Letters

English borrowed the word a sout. And again, the latin al was revived, and it became a sal. De tout got its al and became de falt. Caldron its l and became cauldron. Another interesting example is the fish known as salmon. The name began as the latin word, salmonem but once again, it lost its l in french. In this case, the l remained silent, which is why salmon is pronounced without the al to day in most cases. It seems very likely that salmon will become more and more common over time because most of those silent ls from the 15 hundreds were gradually pronounced overtime.