why does the word "colonel" pronounced "coronel?..?

Question

explain if you know.....only serious...

Answer 1

Ancient uses of the word colonel date back to Roman regiments, where a colonel was the officer in charge of a column of soldiers. The term then reappeared in the Middle Ages, as a nobleman in command of a large number of soldiers, forming early units similar to battalions and regiments. The head colonel of the battlefield would usually become the Colonel General, and command all other colonels and their troops.

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colonel#Origins

The modern usage of the word colonel began in the late sixteenth century, when companies were first formed into larger regiments or columns (colonne in Italian) under the leadership of a colonnello. (In modern English, the word is pronounced similarly to kernel as a result of having entered the language from Middle French in two competing forms, coronel and colonel. The more etymological colonel was favored in literary works and eventually became the standard spelling despite losing the pronunciation war to the dissimilated coronel.)

Answer 2

Actually it's pronounced, "kernel". But really it has to do with the way the mouth and the tongue and muscles all work in linguistics. Ca-la-nel is difficult to pronounce and people tend to shorten and slur sounds. When I say "Kernel", I see it in my mind with the proper spelling, but I would find it difficult to say Ca-la-nel all the time. In linguistics you see this tendency all the time (over the history of any given language), so I think that is your answer.

Answer 3

it's just dialect, no real reason. in the US people often pronounce caramel as "carmel" and in the UK they pronounce highway and herb as "eye-way" and "herb", not "erb". After the revolutionary war Americans purposely began pronouncing and spelling english words differently than the british, which is why we pronounce and spell so many things different, like defense/defence and humor/humour.

Answer 4

no it's actually pronounced kernal like a kernal of corn.
I have no idea... sometimes when I see that word I forget adn say "Colon-L" then I'm like duh.