How do you pronounce the word "caramel"?

I always use the care-a-mel pronounciation. Many words are like that having different ways to say them. Either with the E sound or with the I sound? I use the E sound.

care-a-mel.
i get really annoyed when someone pronounces it car-mul, for some reason

CAR-MUL its a very rare occasion that I will hear someone pronounce it care-a-mel and it always bothers me. This like many words seems to depend on where your from for how you say it. Kind of like the whole soda and pop thing.

but it’s carAmel! people should pronounce it like that. [;

Care-a-mel , but I car-me-lize sugar.

@ishotthesheriff just because something is spelled a certain way doesn’t mean thats how it is pronounced. Say oh subtle for instance.

@ishotthesheriff: It is also wedNesday, but we don’t say that! (And most people don’t say febRuary, either.) Just saying, is all.

i pronounce the N when i say wednesday… i don’t say wedsday. how else to you pronounce subtle other than. . . sub-tle.. no one says .. soob tley lol

just saying, too.

I don’t pronounce the “b” in subtle. If you did, why would there be that old saying ”..putting the ‘b’ in subtle.”? But, I suppose, to each his own.

I’ve always pronounced it car-mul. My girlfriend always gets on to me, saying I pronounce it wrong. I’ll have to ask her how she pronounces Wednesday, subtle and February next time she mentions it.

English is a highly flawed language.

There is no such thing as a silent A in the middle of a word.

caramel [NOT CARMEL] , wednesday [I don’t even know how you would say this without the N… weds-day? wtf.], february [NOT FEB-YOU-AIRY], jewelry [NOT JEW-LA-REE!!!], etc.

words arent supposed to have random pronunciations.

CARE-A-MEL UNITE! haha…

@ezraglenn—No, you can’t say Wednesday without the “n,” but do you say it with two “d’s”? Is it Wed-NES-day, or Wens-day, or even Wends-day?

absolutely. WEDNES-DAY

Carmul, but then again, I’m from Luziana

Carmul and I’m arkansan so go figure… But my momma and her momma and her mommas, momma said carmel too, so it kinda makes sense.

or my faves OFF-TEN and NOO-KYOO-LUR…wow, and LIE-BERRY and FEB-YOU-AIRY

It irks me the most when professional broadcasters make these mistakes…argh! (is the H silent?!?)

@ezarglenn definitely wens-day i always had the hardest time as a kid spelling wednesday because of the way i pronouced it. Though until now i didnt know there were other ways, interesting.

As an Australian, I pronounce it “car-a-mull” (the “u” is short, not like in “mule”)... and I don’t say it “car-a-MELL” as Americans seem to :D. And I’ve never heard “car-mul” before…

“Wednesday”: although “Wens-day” is common, it can be pronounced more ‘correctly’ as “Wed’ens-day” (the “ens” part is said very quick)

ezraglenn – Jewellery is spelled like this outside of America, and as such we say “jool-er-ree”, instead of the American “jool-ree”

Like this.

I usually pronounce it: owmph

i say CAHR-uh-mell.

I say cahr-a-mell, but then I also say Kar-mull-izd.

@Spargett: Not that flawed, just people being weird about pronunciation. Flawed because it has a billion influences and has been bastardised by the Americans, Australians and New Zealanders along the way!