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Topicwhy do americans pronounce colonel as kernul?
weapon_d00d816
01/18/18 6:48:18 AM
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spikethedevil posted...
No most of us do but i'll stop when Americans get over their phobia of the letter U and stop missing the H off of herb.

Those U's were added to the spellings of those words to make them look more French and thus fancier.

That's literally the historical reason.
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