How is Mosaic pronounced?
What does Mosaic mean?
1 : a surface decoration made by inlaying small pieces of variously colored material to form pictures or patterns also : the process of making it. 2 : a picture or design made in mosaic.
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.