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How many times have you thought you knew exactly what something was only to look it up and discover that there are more things in Heaven and Earth &c.? What prompted this particular Wikipedia jaunt was a friend's pronunciation of "bergamot" with a silent "t" (as if from the French; hélas, the actual French is bergamote). It's unlike her to be pretentious, so I assume she's merely the innocent victim of seeing something spelled on frou-frou packaging and never hearing it spoken aloud.

I had the opposite problem myself and mispronounced it "bergamont" for years, adding an intrusive "n" to make it fit the pattern of accustomed words like "Claremont" and "Belmont". So I gave her the benefit of the doubt and looked up the word to see if her variant was sanctioned only to find out...but before we get to that, let me ask you a question: What plant comes to mind when I say "bergamot"?