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I hate the way that the supposed english way of saying "Mall" is Mal.
I mean, WTF?! We say Hall, Ball, Fall in the exact same way. Yet Mall is friggin Mal?!
That just makes absolutely no sense and never will. Finally, a reason to move to america!
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Yeah, I thought that until I learnt that the word is derived from Pall Mall/The Mall, the place in London which is pronounced /mæl/. So etymologically it makes sense, and I should hope by now you’ve realized words in English are really pronounced as per their individual history, not because of any all-encompassing rules.