<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 10:27 PM, Benjamin L. Russell <<a href="mailto:dekudekuplex@yahoo.com">dekudekuplex@yahoo.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Actually, according to the definition that you used (<a href="http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cabal" target="_blank">http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cabal</a>), there are the following two pronunciations of "cabal":<br>
<br>
1) \kə-ˈbäl\<br>
2) \kə-ˈbal\<br>
<br>
The "a" phoneme of the "ˈbal" syllable of pronunciation 2 is actually defined to be identical to the first syllable "ˈba" of "balance" (<a href="http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/balance" target="_blank">http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/balance</a>); viz.:<br>
<br>
\ˈba-lən(t)s\</blockquote><div><br>But if you say it that way, you get kicked out of the cabal.<br><br></div></div><br>