Why is "colonol" pronounce the same as "kernel" ?
"pronounced"... sorry
Thank you, William for an intelligent reply. To the other, less helpful ones, well, grats on your points for answering
"pronounced"... sorry
Thank you, William for an intelligent reply. To the other, less helpful ones, well, grats on your points for answering
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English colonel is pronounced the same as kernel. This seems odd, but there is an explanation. In many languages when a word contains two identical or similar sounds, one of these sounds will often change over a period of time. This kind of change is called dissimilation. So when the Italian word colonello was taken into French, it became coronel; and the word was borrowed by the English from the French in this form.
frombrum
it isn't
your language has just corrupted it like
aluminium
RandomCanyon
Colonel (military rank) not colonol, and Kernel have the same C sound.
A man ran over a box of popcorn at a military base with his car and flattened two kernels (colonels)
Anonymous
I know. English is hard, isn't it Comrade.