"Carl" and "coral"

Pat   Sun Dec 21, 2008 3:28 pm GMT
Do you pronounce these as homophones? Because for me they're exactly the same.
upstater   Sun Dec 21, 2008 3:34 pm GMT
no. "Coral" has two syllables, and a different vowel in first syllable.
Estel   Sun Dec 21, 2008 5:02 pm GMT
Are you from NY or NJ or somewhere close to those states?
Jef   Sun Dec 21, 2008 6:56 pm GMT
No, they aren't even remotely the same.
Caspian   Sun Dec 21, 2008 8:18 pm GMT
Carl is one syllable. The vowel sound is pronounced as in 'bath' and 'grass'.

Coral is two syllables. 'Kor-rul'.
K. T.   Mon Dec 22, 2008 1:15 am GMT
They are not homophones for me, but I would not be surprised to hear this in my area.

"We w're at the beach, C'rl and me, and he done cut his foot on the c'rl."
Another Guest   Tue Dec 23, 2008 12:31 am GMT
No, at least in my dialect, "Carl" is two syllables, as is "fire". The first vowel sound in Carl is [a], while the first vowel sound in "bath" and "grass" is [æ]. The first vowel sound in "coral" is yet another sound.
Dan   Tue Dec 23, 2008 12:38 am GMT
Pat must be a troll
Laurie   Wed Jan 07, 2009 1:33 am GMT
There not the same
bubble   Wed Jan 07, 2009 2:44 am GMT
For me, they both have the same second syllable, but the a in Carl is different from the o in coral.