If you'd grown up in Raleigh you'd know this :>
There's quite a few Connells in the area and this is their
pronunciation. The one I knew avoided the whole issue
with the nickname "Cornie" (given name Charlie Connell).
 
 - michael
 
> From [log in to unmask] Wed Nov 15 02:12:38 1995
>
> >I guess the biggest surprise was in finding out that, apparently, it
> >really IS pronounced "the Con-NELLS", with the emphasis on the second
> >syllable. I've been walking around for months saying "the CON-nells"; I even
> >thought I remembered reading something on this mailing list about that,
> >to the effect that somebody in the band actually claimed that you emphasized
> >the first syllable. But on the tape, two different interviewers pronounced
> >it "con-NELLS" with nary a breath of contradiction from the interviewees,
> >one of whom was Mike Connell -- you'd think if anyone knew the correct
> >pronunciation, it'd be him. So, anyway. Now I have to adjust.
> >
> This is interesting. For six or seven years or whatever, I've been
> pronouncing it the way you now say is right, but I'd recently grown
> convinced that the CON-nells pronunciation was correct. The factors that
> most led me to doubt my own pronunciation were that everybody I know from
> the Southeast seemed to say CON-nells and that the names Connell and
> O'Connell are typically pronounced with the stress on the first syllable.
> So, with little success, I've been trying to adjust. On a copy-editing list
> that I subscribe to (yeah, it's every bit as dreadful as you might guess),
> votes are sometimes called. Should we try that? Or, better yet, does
> someone know the pronunciation definitively?