What is the sound of beige?
Beige does not sound the way it looks. The “ei” is pronounced like a long “a” (as in “cake”) and the “g” is a soft “zh” sound. This is because beige comes straight out of French, where it originally meant a fabric of the color we now know as beige.
What is the English meaning of beige?
1 : of a color that is light grayish-yellowish brown : of the color beige a beige skirt. 2 : lacking distinction : vanilla sense 2. Other Words from beige Synonyms More Example Sentences Learn More About beige.
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.