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For anyone wondering, salmon's pronounciation comes from the French word saumon. The French word comes from the Latin word salmo. When smarty pants scholars decided on how words would be spelled in the middle ages, they thought salmon should have an L in it since the Latin word does (screw with all those dumb people who don't know Latin!)
In case anyone else who isn't knowledgeable in Latin is curious as to what "salmo" means and why they decided to name a fish after it... Salmo means Salmon.
Salmon specifically, or just fish?
Specifically salmon
Cool, thanks a lox