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It's weird because when you read vulnerability (or at least when I say it) the first phoneme effectively becomes 'vun' - but in the abbreviated form one feels t

by DC-3 8y ago

It's weird because when you read vulnerability (or at least when I say it) the first phoneme effectively becomes 'vun' - but in the abbreviated form one feels the need to mentally enunciate the 'l'.

hopler 8y ago
It's because vul-ner-a-bil-i-ty is being chopped in the middle of a syllable "ner", "Vulner" is more pleasant than "vuln"
qu4z-2 8y ago
I think the dropped l might just be your locale. I certainly pronounce it in the full word.