On a somewhat related note, was observing my daughter’s classroom a couple of weeks back and the teacher said the word “talk” was “tawk”—that the “l” sound was silent. I thought she was wrong, but when I looked it up it on dictionary.com they said the pronunciation was indeed “tawk”. As well as walk as “wawk” and chalk as “chawk”, but I’ve always put the “l” sound in those words.
Do you pronounce the ‘L’ in ‘salmon’?
What the heck dictionary were you using?