>colonel why is it pronounced like pic related

>colonel
>maize
wat

>>9232849
"kernal" you twat

and op I have no idea, why is lieutenant pronounced left-tenant?

>>9232898
Is this umpteenth level irony? I don't actually think people get this dumb yet sound so smug.

>>9232833
Because when they shouted colonel is started to sound more and more like kernel.

Similar as to what happened with the pronunciation of knight, knife, knob. It tends to change to roll off the tongue

>>9232833
Pretend you're British when saying it

>>9232833
Letters "l" and "r" are best friends and secret cross-dressers. Word colonel in English probly got reduced because the second syllable was weakest, and "r" sounds better that "l" before a nasal.

Vowels have been and shall always be fucked, especially in English: the curse of being sonorant.

>>9233862
To add, briefly, I suppose the short "e" sound (KERN-) is also because the retrocity brought on by the "l" to "r" change.

>>9233475
actually makes sense

>>9233862
the word you are groping for there is "allophones".

solly, i meant to say "the wold you ale gloping fol thel is arrophones"

>>9232928
That's the British pronunciation, apparently.