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dark l (plural dark ls or dark l's)
- (phonology) A consonantal sound, the velarized alveolar lateral approximant, represented by ⟨ɫ⟩ in the International Phonetic Alphabet.
- Coordinate term: clear l
1956, Daniel Jones, The Pronunciation of English, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 91: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.
