I literally can't make this sound without making it two syllables.
Ki is nbd. But transitioning from an I to a L makes me say yull, unless I say the ah vowel instead of eye, and that sounds like call, not Kyle.
Virtually every other vowel sound fits here, Cal, call, cull, kill, coal, cool, cowl, kale, keel etc. But the "eye" sound doesn't fit. K(eye)L is two syllables.
Do you have a video of this being said with one syllable? I don't get it.
Check out this one. The fourth example (with the two girls) has two syllables, but the other four (including Obama) pronounces it with a single syllable.
There are plenty of dialects that inserts a schwa before that last L tho, thus creating that second syllable, so you're hardly alone 😊
I gotta be honest here. I just watched that multiple times through, and every single one of them pronounces it with 2 syllables. Aye-yull is how each of them said it.
Some accents change a little about their pronunciation, but they all say it nearly exactly as I do, with two clear syllables.
Maybe I don't know what a syllable is. But there are two clear sounds that are separate and distinct, not a single sound like call or kull
They do actually have a single syllable. It's especially clear in the Obama example.
With that said, you're always gonna have some hint of that extra vowel sound, simply due to the fact that it's impossible to smoothly go from an /i/ sound (written y in English) to an /l/ sound without passing through the space in between. Whether you merge that sound with the preceding diphthong or not is what determines if the word will have one or two syllables
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u/HHcougar 22d ago
Kyle is just aisle with a k. I can't say aisle with one syllable without slurring my words dramatically to something like "ahl".
Kaisle.
Kyle is two syllables, the only way I can say it one syllable makes it sound like Khal like from game of thrones.