The word 'primer' is pronounced the obvious way, pry-mer, when it refers to paint, explosives, or DNA research. However, in the United States, an elementary or introductory text book is correctly pronounced prim-er even though there's only one 'm.' (It's probably a survival of the pronunciation prior to the standardization of English spelling by Samuel Johnson in the 1750s.)
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