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Great question! The reason is because of the word's origin and tortured development from Middle French into English.
As the below link instructs, the original word was "coronel" and later "colonel" both of which are French forms of the Italian "colonnello" which means "little column." That term applied in a military sense because that officer often led the first little column at the head of a regiment.
While the PRONUNCIATION of the first French term (coronel) dominated in English, the SPELLING of the second version (colonel) was favored because it was closer to the original Italian. What resulted was a word that ended up being pronounced very differently from the way it was spelled.
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