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Old November 17, 2006   #16
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Yes, but once you learn how to pronounce every possible French syllable, you can stop learning.

It seems every pronunciation rule in English has 5,000 exceptions. There are no hard-and-fast rules in the English language. I mean "colonel"? What the heck were they thinking?
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Old November 18, 2006   #17
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Lexicographer John Walker is quoted in the "Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology", "colonel, this word is among those gross irregularities which must be given up as incorrigible".

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