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Thread #39736   Message #564577
Posted By: CarolC
03-Oct-01 - 08:17 PM
Thread Name: BS: Pronunciation of 'Colin'
Subject: RE: BS: Pronunciation of 'Colin'
Powell's parents were immigrants to the US from an island nation. I'm not sure which one, but I think it had a British cultural tendency. My understanding is that his parents were more British, culturally, than they were American. And they gave him the British pronounciation when he was born.

I don't know what the origins of the other fellow's pronounciation, the one that Powell now uses, were.