Talk:Colonel

message: Is there any explination of 'colonel' being pronounced as 'popcorn kernel'? These comments may be specific for my accent, but in reading, the word 'colonel' consists of three sylables, yet when pronouncing it as 'kernel' it is only two. Also, where does the second 'l' disapear to?
220.245.175.21 09:46, 26 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I don't know if this is useful or not, but here's a nice little video explaining the etymology of the word. --Hamsterlopithecus (talk) 12:20, 2 January 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Can someone explain how "colonel" is pronounced rather differently than the spelling ? "Curnal" or "curnel" looks English and "good enough" (to me, atleast). But howcome no one pronounces it as it is spelled ? (All other languages aside) 83.249.168.151 (talk) 21:45, 1 May 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Pronounciation 

message: why is colonel spelled without the letter R?  JRS
: The title comes from 'commander of a column (of companies) of troops'. So the question is, "why is colonel pronounced with an R?" Probably just from slurring the word. --wwoods 07:21, 13 Apr 2004 (UTC)
replies: text:  Historically there was an alternative Spanish form coronel. It looks like English took the spelling from one form and the pronunciation from another. --194.73.107.129 15:31, 7 Sep 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  Help 

message: What is all this about Romans and the word colonel? As in:
:Ancient uses of the word colonel date back to Roman regiments, where a colonel was the officer in charge of a column of soldiers. 
I have read a lot about the Roman military and never come across any such thing. WP:BALLS perhaps? Gaius Cornelius 19:46, 21 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Roman Colonel

message: I'm too lazy to go out and do any real research, but my guess as to why the word is pronounced "Kernel" and not "Colonel" is this:
"L" and the tapped "R" sound (like in most Romance languages) are very similar sounds.  I imagine that the the word was corrupted to "Coronel" (and remains today in Portuguese and Spanish) due to the similarity between the R and L, and that the pronunciation "Kernel" is a combination of a vowel shift and a slur (Cor- to -Ker, and the dropping of the middle "o").
Just my two cents.
71.235.66.254 00:06, 7 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  My Theory on Pronunciaton 

message: There seems to be a contradiction in this article.
The rank of Colonel is one of the oldest in existence, dating as far back as the time of the Roman Empire,
The rank of Colonel is one of the oldest in existence, dating as far back as the time of the Roman Empire,  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 128.61.105.190 (talk) 08:08, 30 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Contradiction? 

message: I would like to get an explanation on what ground is Greece classified as a west-european country? Has the country miraculously been relocated to another part of the continent?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 193.212.171.26 (talk) 12:15, 31 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Greece, a west-european country? 

message: Costa Rica does not have army.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 201.206.31.186 (talk) 03:19, 17 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Military forces? 

message: I think that the Luxembourg army has now also a General, which is Gen. Gaston Reinig (see http://lb.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaston_Reinig which states that he is a general). He is chief commander of the Luxembourg army since 2008.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 137.226.198.183 (talk) 11:41, 22 June 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Colonel as highest ranking officer 

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message: http://www.mindef.gov.sg/imindef/mindef_websites/topics/ranks/mdes.html has a quasi officer rank system with the rank ME7 equivalent to Colonel.Other dictionaries are better (talk) 19:20, 18 June 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Singapore

message: Can anyone gather if this is still the case? And while I do not doubt that Colonel was indeed the highest rank in the Libyan military at least until this year, I have also seen many officers referred to as "General" (i.e. Major General Abdul Fatah Younis or Major General Abu-Bakr Yunis Jabr). Is this a matter of formality vs. actuality (that there were de facto generals, but Colonel Gaddafi did not want anyone to outrank him), or does this have to do more with various sources not taking this rank cap into account? Jetpower45 (talk) 21:40, 26 December 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Colonel as highest ranking officer - Libya 

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