How do you pronounced caramel?

Question

a) care-ah-mel
b) car-mel

Edit: Pronounce

Answer 1

carra-mel, which I suppose is the British pronounciation of how you would say 'care-ah-mel'

Answer 2

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Answer 3

I pronounce it 'car - mall'

It's cool how people say it differently, though! Sometimes for fun I pronounce it 'care - a -mel'

Answer 4

I pronounce it like care-ah-mel. I don't really like caramel though...except on a Snicker's bar. YUM!

Answer 5

i almost always say care-ah-mel. 99 % maybe


BUT, there is a store named Caramel Corn ( or maybe Karamel Korn) and I always pronounce that car-mel.

Answer 6

Both ways are correct. My wife says care-a-mel and I say car-mel. We both know what we mean. How about Halloween? Halo- ween or hollow-een?

Answer 7

We say (b) "car-mel" here in Washington state, west coast U.S.A. I'm starting to be infatuated with the other pronounciation though.

Answer 8

I suppose this may depend on where you are from, or where you live.
In British English it has 3 syllables ca-ra-mel with the stress on the first syllable.

Answer 9

I use care-ah-mel for the candies, but make kar-muhl corn.

Actually, there are actually three pronunciations given in most dictionaries, and care-ah-mel isn't one of them.

kar-uh-muhl is the preferred pronunciation
kar-uh-mel, and kahr-muhl are recognized variants.

Answer 10

I pronounce it pretty much like the first choice, but just for kicks I always roll the "r". Try it, it's fun!