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Colonel is pronounced how?

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Greg Wilkins | 11:05 Mon 15th Apr 2002 | History
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Why do we pronounce the military title of Colonel as Kernal? What is the history of the term?
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Im not sure of the history, but the pronunciation is because english is a lazy language. Inconvenient sectios of word are often omited. For example Cholmondely (chumley), Gloucester etc. Generaly follows the law of consonental shift put forward by the brothers grimm.
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