On Sun, 14 Dec 2003 15:26:19 -0500, David VanHorn wrote:

> >Odd, I've never heard anyone pronounce it "co-lon-el" before. ;-)
>
> LeBeau, on Hogan's Heroes!

Ah yes, a good old English name, LeBeau!  :-)

The thing is, there really is no way to tell how to pronounce a word you haven't heard before.  "Gloucester,
Leicester, Worcester" miss out all but the first and last syllables, to be pronounced "Gloster, Lester,
Wooster", but "Cirencester" is pronounced pretty-much as it's written "siren-sester".

Cheers,

Howard Winter
 St.Albans, England (where we pronounce "colonel" as "kernal" :-)

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