How do you pronounce "caramel"? (bars, eat)

[DubbleT]

I'm weird, the candies are care-uh-mels, but I like car-mel apples and car-mel popcorn.
Maybe from having lived in a ton of places and trying to adapt to local speech patterns.

[JJG]

Originally Posted by EddieOlSkool

That's....different.

Is it?

Because that's by far the most common pronounciation of it I grew up hearing...

Unless you're thinking "a" instead of "uh", because that's what I mean.

[saibot]

I say Car-mel. I'm from California.

Care-uh-mel doesn't sound too unnatural, though in general nothing's worse than hearing people pedantically emphasize syllables that ought not be emphasized:

"After I finish with the vac-u-um, let's go down to the rest-uh-ront and get a choc-o-late milkshake."

[aliasfinn]

I pronounce it car- mel
I also pronounce coupon koo-pon because there is no Q in it.

[bruhms]

care-uh-mel

[sirrob]

car-mul

[tcave360]

Originally Posted by EddieOlSkool

Love it.

What is curry? Is it an Indian dish? Nope. It's what Marylanders do to transfer something from one place to another.

That's how us Murliners love to curry ourselves lol.

[Sleddog905]

Care-uh-mel, grew up in New England.

[Spade]

Originally Posted by hdwell

I feel the same way about "CAR mul"

Same here. When I went to Chicago, my dad asked if I wanted a CAR mul cake. I was like a what?

[EddieOlSkool]

Originally Posted by saibot

I say Car-mel. I'm from California.

Care-uh-mel doesn't sound too unnatural, though in general nothing's worse than hearing people pedantically emphasize syllables that ought not be emphasized:

"After I finish with the vac-u-um, let's go down to the rest-uh-ront and get a choc-o-late milkshake."

Looks like some people don't get that.

"Car-mel" is really the same thing we do with words like "Worcestershire" and "interest". To say it's "incorrect" because someone doesn't enunciate all the syllables is quite silly.