What does scarcely mean?
adverb. barely; hardly; not quite: The light is so dim we can scarcely see. definitely not: This is scarcely the time to raise such questions. probably not: You could scarcely have chosen better.
How do you pronounce Scarely?
How do you pronounce water scarcity?
Is the L silent in polka?
Rather, the term polka dot current since the 1850’s, has simply undergone the very common phenomenon of l-dropping : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phonological_history_of_English_consonants#L_vocalization_and_L_dropping while the term polka for the dance has retained it’s /l/ due to reinforcement by foreign speakers