So how do you pronounce caramel?

[Sluggo]

This is the constant battle at my house, yeah.... we really have nothing better to fight about.

 

[ohtwell]

kar-a-mel



: ) Amanda

 

[Sluggo]

Originally posted by: ohtwell
kar-a-mel



: ) Amanda

Bahhhh your wrong I tell you wrong.

 

[ohtwell]

Originally posted by: Sluggo

Originally posted by: ohtwell
kar-a-mel



: ) Amanda

Bahhhh your wrong I tell you wrong.

Nuh uh



: ) Amanda

 

[notfred]

car-muhl, but it really doesn't matter in the slightest to me.

 

[XMan]

Car-mel.

 

[Foundation]

by kar-a-mel

do u mean, KAR as in CAR

or KAR as in CAT

 

[LordMaul]

Originally posted by: notfred
car-muhl

 

[Spoooon]

I say car-muhl. Is that a region specific thing?

 

[Sluggo]

Originally posted by: Spoooon
I say car-muhl. Is that a region specific thing?

I hear people from all areas using both, so I didnt think it was a pop/soda/coke thing.

 

[Cougar]

it depends...

sometimes I say car-mul and other times I say kare-uh-mel.

 

[Foundation]

Originally posted by: Foundation
by kar-a-mel

do u mean, KAR as in CAR sound

or KAR as in CAT sound

 

[ohtwell]

Originally posted by: Foundation

Originally posted by: Foundation
by kar-a-mel

do u mean, KAR as in CAR sound

or KAR as in CAT sound

I think he means that KAR is said as CARE.



: ) Amanda

 

[SgtBuddy]

CARE UH MEL

CARE UH MEL APP PULL


yum

 

[dakata24]

merriam-websters online dictionary has it as both

car-mel

and care-uh-mel

 

[yakko]

I pronounce it melbalicious.

 

[Alienwho]

It depends:

I eat Car-muhl apples.

But snickers have kar-a-mel inside.

 

[erikiksaz]

Originally posted by: SgtBuddy
CARE UH MEL

CARE UH MEL APP PULL


yum

There ya go, care uh mel

 

[Platypus]

It depends on how it is spelled?

Caramel
Carmel

 

[trenchfoot]

what is the justification for not pronouncing the second "a" in the word? it's not like someone put the letter there just so that it would be ignored on purpose? could it be that the word is slowly being transformed into street language like so many other words that have been "americanized" so as to make it easier to pronounce when using the particular brand of english that we speak?

i mean, just look at how we americans love to substitute the short "a" for other vowels; especially the letter "o" in words such as "a-round", or "a-bout" and "down". or, leave vowels and syllables completely out of a word if we encounter the slightest difficuty in pronouncing them and think nothing of it at all.

 

[Kerouactivist]

I usually say car-muhl but, I think that Kar-a-mel is the correct way to actually say it.....

 

[NikPreviousAcct]

car-muhl

 

 

[diskop]

care yo. care

 

[MSantiago]

kar-a-mel

...and of course, the obligatory link to the "do you say pop or soda?" page: http://www.ugcs.caltech.edu/~almccon/pop_soda/