He's German. Also I pronounce it gr- al (like weird al)  

Posted by TarePanda

No one knows why Colonel is pronounced Kernel.

Yes they do, http://teachinghistory.org/history-c...istorian/22270

Posted by Shadowfox

He's German.

He's from Germany but lives in France now.  

I got an idea, how bout we just call it pie and let it be  

Posted by Vivid

I got an idea, how bout we just all die and let it be

Woe i like your thinking  

Posted by Hadzz

Woe i like your thinking, I kill People for fun

Lol?  

Posted by Vendetta

Yes they do, http://teachinghistory.org/history-c...istorian/22270

no real explanation what's so ever. The writer of the whole article seems uncertain themselves and to be honest in the end the article has more questions than answers. Would +1 but you suck.  

Posted by Vivid

Lol i do more than kill them

Woe thats too far  

Posted by TarePanda

no real explanation what's so ever. The writer of the whole article seems uncertain themselves and to be honest in the end the article has more questions than answers. Would +1 but you suck.

Within the article there was one question, and that was "why do they sometimes pronounce the word "Lieutenant" as if it were spelled "Lef-tenant?" which has little relevance to colonel.

Colonel came into English, according to The Oxford English Dictionary, in the mid-16th century from Middle French, and there were two forms of the word then, coronel (or coronelle, akin to Spanish coronel) and colonel, the latter form more clearly reflecting its Old Italian antecedent, colonello ("column of soldiers," from Latin, columnella, "small column"). The written style continued to reflect the older form, while the spoken form, competing against it, as it were, reflected the other?coronel?which was often pronounced to sound like "kernul" or "kernel." Given the Middle French form, the r sound in the pronunciation of some Americans is not strange.

(Also I really couldn't care less if you +1'd me)  

Search "define graal" then tap and hold the word graal and choose "speak" siri knows how to say it  

Posted by Hadzz

Hoe thats too far

Language! :3
Just kidding, I would never expect you to post that  

But why do they pronounce lieutenant like that?  

Posted by Vendetta

Within the article there was one question, and that was "why do they sometimes pronounce the word "Lieutenant" as if it were spelled "Lef-tenant?" which has little relevance to colonel. Colonel came into English, according to The Oxford English Dictionary, in the mid-16th century from Middle French, and there were two forms of the word then, coronel (or coronelle, akin to Spanish coronel) and colonel, the latter form more clearly reflecting its Old Italian antecedent, colonello ("column of soldiers," from Latin, columnella, "small column"). The written style continued to reflect the older form, while the spoken form, competing against it, as it were, reflected the other?coronel?which was often pronounced to sound like "kernul" or "kernel." Given the Middle French form, the r sound in the pronunciation of some Americans is not strange. (Also I really couldn't care less if you +1'd me)

didn't help at all thx the only reason it's pronounced "Kernel" is because simply they felt like it. But it still makes no sense.  

 

Posted by TarePanda

didn't help at all thx the only reason it's pronounced "Kernel" is because simply they felt like it. But it still makes no sense.

Let me simplify it for you.

It's pronounced kernel because there were originally two ways to say and spell it. Colonello (The Italian translation) and coronel (The Spanish translation). Like most words, overtime it evolved and the the pronunciation changed and became mixed in a way which makes it sound like ˈkəːn(ə)l. The spelling of the word also evolved, it became spelt like the Spanish translation, coronel but with the L from the Italian spelling to make Colonel.

Words evolve, just look at old English and compare it to now. It's very different but you can see how certain words are similar to how we would say them today.  

Posted by Vendetta

Let me simplify it for you.

It's pronounced kernel because there were originally two ways to say and spell it. Colonello (The Italian translation) and coronel (The Spanish translation). Like most words, overtime it evolved and the the pronunciation changed and became mixed in a way which makes it sound like ˈkəːn(ə)l. The spelling of the word also evolved, it became spelt like the Spanish translation, coronel but with the L from the Italian spelling to make Colonel.

Words evolve, just look at old English and compare it to now. It's very different but you can see how certain words are similar to how we would say them today.

you have a better chance of making a rock understand