On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 8:58 PM, Jonathan Cast
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It's not French
'tis so! Two dictionaries I've now checked say it entered English from
Hebrew via French 'cabale'. But that has to be the last I say on this
as it's now well off topic.
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On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 6:38 PM, Richard A. O'Keefe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I've always pronounced it k'BAHL, but was surprised to find that
the OED only countenances a short second syllable:
The reason I originally asked is that American, British and other
dialects of English handle French
On 29 May 2008, at 10:44 AM, Dan Piponi wrote:
On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 6:38 PM, Richard A. O'Keefe
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I've always pronounced it k'BAHL, but was surprised to find that
the OED only countenances a short second syllable:
The reason I originally asked is that American,
: [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
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Actually, according to the definition that you used (
http://www.merriam
2008/5/28 Clifford Beshers [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
But if you say it that way, you get kicked out of the cabal.
I thought the first rule was There is no cabal. Oh wait, that's
Debian. Oh wait... aa!
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On 28 May 2008, at 1:04 pm, Dan Piponi wrote:
In particular, which syllable gets the stress, and what are the
lengths of the two vowels? Couldn't find anything in the FAQ
(http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Cabal/FAQ).
I've always pronounced it k'BAHL, but was surprised to find that
the OED
In particular, which syllable gets the stress, and what are the
lengths of the two vowels? Couldn't find anything in the FAQ
(http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Cabal/FAQ).
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As in the dictionary (http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cabal),
accent on the second syllable, which is pronounced like none of ball,
balance, boll and bale. Roughly the same rhythm as kaboom.
On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 6:04 PM, Dan Piponi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In particular, which
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
On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 10:27 PM, Benjamin L. Russell
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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
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