§ 18. aplomb. 7. Pronunciation Challenges. The American Heritage Book of English Usage. 1996

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A Practical and Authoritative Guide to Contemporary English. 1996.

7. Pronunciation Challenges: Confusions and Controversy

§ 18. aplomb

Confusion arises with the pronunciation of this word probably because the sequence omb has several conspicuously different ways of being pronounced—(m) as in bomb, (m) as in comb, (m) as in tomb. You can pronounce aplomb (-plm´) or (-plm´).	1