Why Is Colonel Pronounced Kernel?
The French Also Took This Word from the Italians. but When They Added It to Their Language, They Changed the Word "Colonnelo" to "Coronel." Language Experts...
The French also took this word from the Italians. But when they added it to their language, they changed the word "colonnelo" to "coronel." Language experts say this is because the French wanted to have the "r" sound in the word, instead of the two "l" sounds. ... Colonel was spelled c-o-l-o-n-e-l but pronounced "kernel."
Why is Colonel pronounced with an R in it?
Why is the word “colonel” pronounced with an “r” sound when it is not spelled with an “r”? “Colonel” came to English from the mid-16th-century French word coronelle, meaning commander of a regiment, or column, of soldiers. ... (But in the part of Virginia I come from, there is no “r” sound; it's pronounced kuh-nul.)
Is it pronounced colonel or kernel?
"Colonel" is pronounced just like "kernel." How did this happen? From borrowing the same word from two different places. In the 1500s, English borrowed a bunch of military vocabulary from French, words like cavalerie, infanterie, citadelle, canon, and also, coronel.
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