_caramel_

[Joel S. Berson]

My unreliable memory tells me I grew up out of
"carmel" (as in the candy, probably picked up on
the street*) into "caramel", each pronounced as below.
White, slightly earlier period, New York City.

* No, not the candy, the pronunciation.

Joel

At 12/19/2011 01:21 AM, John Fitzpatrick wrote:
>Carmel--first vowel has COT sound
>Caramel--I say three syllables, the first "A" as in BAT.
>Demographics:  White; grew up in the '50s & '60s in Wash., D.C. and adjacent
>Montgomery Co., Md.; parochial schools
>
>Seán Fitzpatrick
>“The heart that you break--
>that’s the one that you rely on.”
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