dark l

noun

dark l

noun

Human sciences, Linguistics, Phonology, Sciences A consonantal sound, the velarized alveolar lateral approximant, represented by ⟨ɫ⟩ in the International Phonetic Alphabet.

Occasionally one meets with people in the South of England who do not differentiate between clear l's and dark l's to the extent mentioned in the preceding paragraphs.1956, Daniel Jones, The Pronunciation of English, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 91:

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