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Why is "colonol" pronounce the same as "kernel" ?

Update:

"pronounced"... sorry

Update 2:

Thank you, William for an intelligent reply. To the other, less helpful ones, well, grats on your points for answering 

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  • ?
    Lv 7
    2 months ago
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    English colonel is pronounced the same as kernel. This seems odd, but there is an explanation. In many languages when a word contains two identical or similar sounds, one of these sounds will often change over a period of time. This kind of change is called dissimilation. So when the Italian word colonello was taken into French, it became coronel; and the word was borrowed by the English from the French in this form.

  • 2 months ago

    it isn't

    your language has just corrupted it  like

    aluminium

  • 2 months ago

    Colonel (military rank) not colonol, and Kernel have the same C sound.

    A man ran over a box of popcorn at a military base with his car and flattened two kernels (colonels) 

  • Anonymous
    2 months ago

    I know. English is hard, isn't it Comrade.

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