https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Tue, 07 Apr 2026 13:10:36 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-do-you-pronounce-banal#post-1891375 Tue, 07 Oct 2014 10:16:22 +0000 ValentineMommy 1891375@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Buh-nahl, like canal. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-do-you-pronounce-banal#post-1891316 Tue, 07 Oct 2014 09:47:57 +0000 LaughLines 1891316@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>This was one of the vocab words in my AP english class and for some reason our class really thought it was hilarious to rhyme it with anal and our english teacher insisted that was incorrect which made us do it even more. Always think of that when i hear the word. My teacher preferred the canal rhyming pronunciation </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-do-you-pronounce-banal#post-1891244 Tue, 07 Oct 2014 08:58:16 +0000 loki 1891244@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>i've only ever heard it said rhyming with anal! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-do-you-pronounce-banal#post-1891203 Tue, 07 Oct 2014 08:36:20 +0000 Mrs.KMM 1891203@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I pronounce it as rhyming with anal (and I honestly can't recall ever hearing it said another way). </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-do-you-pronounce-banal#post-1891168 Tue, 07 Oct 2014 08:12:39 +0000 Anagram 1891168@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>And how about chaise longue? kills me. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-do-you-pronounce-banal#post-1891166 Tue, 07 Oct 2014 08:11:43 +0000 Anagram 1891166@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Words like this drive the English teacher in me crazy. Don't even get me started on the day a Science teacher was trying to teach the difference between homogenous and homogeneous. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-do-you-pronounce-banal#post-1891165 Tue, 07 Oct 2014 08:11:43 +0000 swurlygurl 1891165@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Rhyming with doll - how funny that there are so many accepted pronunciations! English is a ridiculous language </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-do-you-pronounce-banal#post-1891124 Tue, 07 Oct 2014 07:56:58 +0000 FliegepilzHut 1891124@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I voted "canal"...but I think the last syllable rhyming with "doll" may be more correct? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-do-you-pronounce-banal#post-1891018 Tue, 07 Oct 2014 01:26:26 +0000 erinpye 1891018@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I've heard it 2 ways: rhyming with "doll" and with "anal." Have never heard it pronounced to rhyme with "canal" though. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-do-you-pronounce-banal#post-1890981 Mon, 06 Oct 2014 22:19:49 +0000 yoursilverlining 1890981@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Rhyming with "doll". Buh-nall.</p> <p>ETA: I don't think I've ever heard it as rhyming with anal. If i did, I would have assumed they said something else/a different word. Only ever heard it as somewhere between doll and canal. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-do-you-pronounce-banal#post-1890979 Mon, 06 Oct 2014 22:16:29 +0000 Kimberlybee 1890979@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@photojane: @Anagram: I pronounce it as rhyming with anal too. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-do-you-pronounce-banal#post-1890976 Mon, 06 Oct 2014 22:10:13 +0000 photojane 1890976@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Anagram: so strange!</p> <p>Another anal over here. ;) Never heard it any other way! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-do-you-pronounce-banal#post-1890959 Mon, 06 Oct 2014 21:27:54 +0000 Mrs.Panda 1890959@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Buh-nahl (canal). </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-do-you-pronounce-banal#post-1890923 Mon, 06 Oct 2014 20:47:59 +0000 californiadreams 1890923@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@cheesetomywhine: lol! ditto </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-do-you-pronounce-banal#post-1890887 Mon, 06 Oct 2014 20:08:02 +0000 cheesetomywhine 1890887@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I say it as rhyming with anal.</p> <p>ETA- the above sentence is so awkward! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-do-you-pronounce-banal#post-1890884 Mon, 06 Oct 2014 20:07:10 +0000 Anagram 1890884@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My whole life I have only heard this pronounced as rhyming with anal. But tonight on NPR I heard David Fincher say buh-nahl. So I looked it up and found that they are all "accepted" pronunciations. But how strange?! How can we have this word in the English language that has no correct pronunciation?</p> <p>Maybe its regional. Anyway, bay-nul for life over here. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-do-you-pronounce-banal#post-1890882 Mon, 06 Oct 2014 20:06:17 +0000 matador84 1890882@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>buh-nal (rhymes with canal). </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-do-you-pronounce-banal#post-1890863 Mon, 06 Oct 2014 19:45:41 +0000 Andrea 1890863@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Rhymes with doll. I think this was one of those SAT words. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-do-you-pronounce-banal#post-1890847 Mon, 06 Oct 2014 19:31:33 +0000 sarac 1890847@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>The stress is on the second syllable for sure. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-do-you-pronounce-banal#post-1890841 Mon, 06 Oct 2014 19:25:56 +0000 Mrs. Lemon-Lime 1890841@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@ladybee: @Bao: boring, uninteresting. The shopkeeper lived a banal existence; nothing remarkable ever happened to her. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-do-you-pronounce-banal#post-1890838 Mon, 06 Oct 2014 19:23:18 +0000 Mrs. Lemon-Lime 1890838@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Bay-nul/ nal. I think I say "nal" in my head, but repetitively I say "nul" out loud. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-do-you-pronounce-banal#post-1890835 Mon, 06 Oct 2014 19:20:25 +0000 lilyofthewest 1890835@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Most like rhymes with doll, but, I say the first syllable more like bə than bu (sort of halfway between beh and buh). </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-do-you-pronounce-banal#post-1890834 Mon, 06 Oct 2014 19:19:31 +0000 Synchronicity 1890834@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I don't know what it means, but I totally read it as rhyming with anal, lol. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-do-you-pronounce-banal#post-1890833 Mon, 06 Oct 2014 19:19:26 +0000 Baby Boy Mom 1890833@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I think I say it most like canal although maybe slightly like the fourth one. The doll version sounds British to me. :silly: </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-do-you-pronounce-banal#post-1890816 Mon, 06 Oct 2014 18:56:34 +0000 Mrs. Bee 1890816@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Rhymes with doll. Never heard of it rhyming with anal haha. But I have heard it rhyme with canal. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-do-you-pronounce-banal#post-1890815 Mon, 06 Oct 2014 18:56:11 +0000 mrsjyw 1890815@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Me three! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-do-you-pronounce-banal#post-1890811 Mon, 06 Oct 2014 18:54:56 +0000 ladybee 1890811@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Bao: I'm right there with you </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-do-you-pronounce-banal#post-1890801 Mon, 06 Oct 2014 18:44:19 +0000 Bao 1890801@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I'm probably going to be the only one who doesn't know what this word even is... </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-do-you-pronounce-banal#post-1890800 Mon, 06 Oct 2014 18:42:32 +0000 Anagram 1890800@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>In dictionaries there are multiple pronunciatioms, like bu-NAL (rhyming with “canal’). Others are BAY-nul (rhyming with “anal”) and bu-NAHL (the last syllable rhymes with “doll”). Merriam-Webster’s also lists bay-NAL (the last syllable is accented and rhymes with “pal”).</p> <p>How do you pronounce it? </p>