Re: [Haskell-cafe] So how do people pronounce 'cabal' around here?

Not always. Just to be sure, I just checked the "Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Online" (http://pewebdic2.cw.idm.fr/topbar.html), and it came up with the following pronunciation for "cabal": \kəˈbæl\ In fact, this was the only pronunciation listed, so the other pronunciation is not listed at all. Here, the "æ" phoneme is identical to the same phoneme in "balance" (http://pewebdic2.cw.idm.fr/display/display.html?unfolded=3542&ids=3542,3543,3549,3544,3545,3546,3547,3548,3551,3679,29605,44549,47636,48407): \ˈbæləns\ If you don't say it that way, you get kicked out of the Longman cabal. Further, I asked two professional translators/interpreters at work, and they both said that either pronunciation was correct. Which cabal did you mean? Benjamin L. Russell --- On Wed, 5/28/08, Clifford Beshers wrote:

From: Clifford Beshers Subject: Re: [Haskell-cafe] So how do people pronounce 'cabal' around here? To: haskell-cafe@haskell.org Date: Wednesday, May 28, 2008, 2:30 PM On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 10:27 PM, Benjamin L. Russell < dekudekuplex@yahoo.com> wrote:

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Actually, according to the definition that you used ( http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cabal), there are the following two pronunciations of "cabal":

1) \kə-ˈbäl\ 2) \kə-ˈbal\

The "a" phoneme of the "ˈbal" syllable of pronunciation 2 is actually defined to be identical to the first syllable "ˈba" of "balance" ( http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/balance); viz.:

\ˈba-lən(t)s\

But if you say it that way, you get kicked out of the cabal._______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe