| From: | Tristan McLeay <kesuari@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, May 21, 2003, 11:04 |
John Cowan wrote:>michael poxon scripsit: > > >>I've never heard an "r" in the pronunciation of "colonel" - whose >> >> > >Rhotic Englishes make "colonel" and "kernel" homonymous: /kr=n@l/. > >As do, to the best of my knowledge, non-rhotic englishes. They just don't have an R. (IMD[1] it's /k8:n@l/.) [1]: Dialect -- Tristan <kesuari@...>