Posted by TarePanda (Post 463925)

No one knows why Colonel is pronounced Kernel.

Posted by Shadowfox (Post 464063)

He's German.

Posted by Vivid (Post 464103)

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

Posted by Hadzz (Post 464111)

Woe i like your thinking, I kill People for fun

Posted by Vendetta (Post 464068)

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

Posted by Vivid (Post 464325)

Lol i do more than kill them

Posted by TarePanda (Post 464347)

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 Hadzz (Post 464370)

Hoe thats too far

Posted by Vendetta (Post 464439)

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)

Posted by TarePanda (Post 466160)

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 Vendetta (Post 466388)

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.