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| BULLET |
 12/09/07 11:18am
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 Colonel  Group: {MOB} Posts: 1021 Joined: December 14th 2003 From: BAY AREA CA. Member No.: 528  |
Y am I a colonel and not general?And also y is Colonel spelled this way when it is said KERNAL?LOL.
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12/09/07 1:20pm
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Colonel  Group: Forum Member Posts: 921 Joined: October 6th 2006 Member No.: 2051 |
I know you're just joking around, but actually some of us have been talking about changing those ranking things in the forums... it's really meaningless, it just refers to the number of posts you make in the forums.
We outta all get together and come up with some funny ones or something. Dunno about the colonel spelling, maybe it's french? LOL! -------------------- [img][/img]
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| Rush |
12/10/07 1:46am
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 Major Group: {MOB} Posts: 477 Joined: March 22nd 2006 Member No.: 1654 Xfire: savethebird |
Colonel reminds me of Louie LeBeau in Hogans Hero's. He always pronounced Colonel like it sounds. "Col-oh-nel Hogan!"
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| Cpt.Canuck |
12/10/07 10:29am
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 Second Lieutenant  Group: {MOB} Regs Posts: 443 Joined: January 3rd 2006 Member No.: 1511 |
Just googled this...
 "Mainly to continue the tradition of making English as incomprehensible as possible, thereby keeping the spelling bee industry in business. (Believe me, there's millions in it.) Colonel comes from Old Italian colonello, commander of a column of troops, which in turn derives from colonna, column. It wasn't always spelled the Italian way, though. Four hundred years ago English followed the Spanish practice and spelled the word "coronel," sensibly pronounced the way it looked. Eventually this was corrupted to ker-nel, still not bad considering we're talking about the British, who pronounce "Featheringstonehaugh" "Fanshaw." But it couldn't last. Some nameless busybody decided coronel ought to be spelled "colonel" to better reflect its Italian origin, doubtless out of the same misplaced love of precision that gave us 16-1/2 feet to the rod and 27 and 11/32 grains to the dram. It's just the Anglo-Saxon way, I guess. How these people conquered an empire I'll never know." --------------------  |
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