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#42116 09/17/01 09:37 PM
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A simple question:

Why is colonel pronounced "kernel", and is it pronounced similarly in every English speaking country?

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Dear Bill, now that the question has been raised, if you know the reason, do let the rest of us in on it. I have a vague idea that the spelling came by one etymological route and the pronunciation by another, but I forget the details.

By the way, did USns logically enough drop the f in lieutenant or did UKns add it for some unfathomable reason?

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This should make it crystal clear:

http://www.bartleby.com/61/69/C0486900.html


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"...crystal clear."---Appropriate, since we can see right through a ghost.


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Jackie, such status you have achieved! Is there a light at the end of the tunnel?


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light at the end of the tunnel

It's the light of the oncoming carp.


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AUGHHHHHHHHHHHH! I didn't know, my web-footed friend, I didn't know! Oh, ow, ow, ow! Darn you, Hyla-chic, I wouldn't now be in all this pain if you hadn't pointed it out.


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Darn you, Hyla-chic, I wouldn't now be in all this pain if you hadn't pointed it out.

Prior to Jackie's post, I would have said she'd be the last of us to carp...


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