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Why is the word Colonel pronounced /ˈkɜrnəl/?
This word just baffels me because there is no R in yet it is pronounced with a R. Can anyone expain to me how this word works
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- Anonymous1 decade agoFavorite Answer
Because it's French. It's the pronunciation not the spelling.
That's why there are a lot of English words that are funky like that.
Thing about all the words that end with "gh" and how different they sound.
Cough (F) - Through (U) - Bough (ow)
- 1 decade ago
Colonel comes from Old Italian colonello, commander of a column of troops, which in turn derives from colonna, column. It wasn't always spelled the Italian way, though. Four hundred years ago English followed the Spanish practice and spelled the word "coronel," sensibly pronounced the way it looked. Eventually this was corrupted to ker-nel
