Comments on: Monthly Gleanings: December 2010 http://blog.oup.com/2010/12/dec-2010/ Academic insights for the thinking world. Sun, 19 May 2013 05:35:14 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 By: mollymooly http://blog.oup.com/2010/12/dec-2010/#comment-199522 mollymooly Wed, 12 Jan 2011 18:24:49 +0000 http://blog.oup.com/?p=13099#comment-199522 Regarding the name "Carmel" as an influence on the pronunciation of "caramel", Irish experience suggests otherwise. "Carmel" as a girl's name and "Mount Carmel" as a name for convents and schools were common in 20C Catholic Ireland, but I have rarely if ever heard there the American 2-syllable pronunciation of "caramel". Regarding the name “Carmel” as an influence on the pronunciation of “caramel”, Irish experience suggests otherwise. “Carmel” as a girl’s name and “Mount Carmel” as a name for convents and schools were common in 20C Catholic Ireland, but I have rarely if ever heard there the American 2-syllable pronunciation of “caramel”.

]]> By: R http://blog.oup.com/2010/12/dec-2010/#comment-198977 R Sat, 08 Jan 2011 15:18:43 +0000 http://blog.oup.com/?p=13099#comment-198977 Speaking of "caramel": does the case of alarm/alarum have any bearing? Speaking of “caramel”: does the case of alarm/alarum have any bearing?

]]> By: NemaVeze http://blog.oup.com/2010/12/dec-2010/#comment-197898 NemaVeze Wed, 29 Dec 2010 19:56:38 +0000 http://blog.oup.com/?p=13099#comment-197898 Re: "caramel" - Isn't the three-syllable version pronounced with the TRAP vowel in the first syllable, but the two-syllable version uses the START vowel? Maybe the first vowel moving back causes the second vowel to be elided somehow. Re: “caramel” -

Isn’t the three-syllable version pronounced with the TRAP vowel in the first syllable, but the two-syllable version uses the START vowel?

Maybe the first vowel moving back causes the second vowel to be elided somehow.

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