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Pronounced care as in the first syllable of character.

• Nursie 10y ago
  The first syllable of character sounds nothing like "care"...
  • TwiztidK 10y ago
    It does to a lot of Americans.
  • cbd1984 10y ago
    Had I written it in IPA, people would be complaining about that, too... It's /kɛər/, as you can see here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA_for_English https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA_for_English And, for the record, I have the Mary-marry-merry merger: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English-language_vowel_changes_before_historic_/r/#Mary.E2.80.93marry.E2.80.93merry_merger https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English-language_vowel_changes...