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For anyone wondering, salmon's pronounciation comes from the French word saumon. The French word comes from the Latin word salmo. When smarty pants scholars decided on how words would be spelled in the middle ages, they thought salmon should have an L in it since the Latin word does (screw with all those dumb people who don't know Latin!)
There's a bunch of words spelt annoyingly because those bastard scholars decided they'd like to incorporate the historic roots of words, rather than the reality of words, in their spelling.
Maybe they intended the pronunciation to change too, and for whatever reason only the spelling did.