Not a direct reply, but. I was going to be buying food for one of our incoming refugees from Liberia, and one of the things I was told would be welcomed was palm oil. I finally found it at an oriental grocery, and when the girl (who came all that way to live in a strange country by herself at age 19!) arrived, I asked her (more or less) whether it was what she was used to, since to me it was nasty-looking. I was surprised to learn that she didn't say palm with an ah sound for the a like we do, but said it with the a having the same sound as in am, or pam. I find it next to impossible to say palm that way!