Quote Originally Posted by ThistleDown View Post
Can members in America tell us how you pronounce 'Colin'? I'm thinking here of Colin Powell, as just one of many. Is it 'ko-lin' or 'caw-lin'? Not intended as a trick question; it could be that the double-l came about as a result of unfamiliar recorders and the tendency, therefore, for the double-l to be pronounced differently than the single-l.
Rex, in more than 70 years, with a reasonable amount of travel across six continents and working in the commercial theater/trade show business
working with the gamut from uneducated and often willfully ignorant stagehands from across the world to the CEOs and VPs from across the world
who run the evil empire , I've never heard cawlin. I've also never personally known a koelin. I have, though, known and heard the pronunciation
kah lin, as in Collin with two Ls, whether spelled (or spelt) with one or two. As you and your ear and sensibility are one of my mainstays on this forum,
I think some of this is just how we as individuals perceive the same heard or seen event. As in Peking/Beijing and Kolkata/ Calcutta.