How do you pronounce the word pioneer?
What does pioneer mean?
1 : a person who is one of the first to settle in an area. 2 : a person who begins or helps develop something new and prepares the way for others to follow They were pioneers in the field of medicine. pioneer. verb. pioneered; pioneering.
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.