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

Benjamin L. Russell dekudekuplex at yahoo.com
Wed May 28 02:03:23 EDT 2008


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 <clifford.beshers at gmail.com> wrote:

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