Re: CHAT: "boocoo"
| From: | Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, May 20, 2003, 22:23 |
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On Tue, May 20, 2003 at 10:34:08PM +0100, michael poxon wrote:
> I've never heard an "r" in the pronunciation of "colonel" - whose
> dialect/idiolect is this? Sorry, I think I missed the original among all
> that welter of OT's and chats!
Michael: where are you located? The standard U.S. English
pronunciation of the rank "Colonel" - by which I mean the
pronunciation used universally within the U.S. military - is an
exact homophone of the word "kernel"; in my case, it's ['kr\=nl=].
-Mark