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Alright, I'll bite. How is 'care' not phonetically the first syllable of 'character'? And if it's not, then what is?

• barrkel 10y ago
  'Care' rhymes with 'bear', 'share', 'fair'; 'car' rhymes with 'bar', 'far', 'mar'. 'Character', to me, is pronounced 'car-ack-ter' with the emphasis on the first syllable. It doesn't sound anything like 'care'. Conversations like this are hard because accent doesn't transmit through text. I'm Irish.
  • bschwindHN 10y ago
    Ohhhh, that's where the discrepancy is coming from. I didn't know it was pronounced 'car-ack-ter' with an Irish accent. I was thinking in terms of an American accent which is where the confusion came from. The "listen" button here pronounces the words with an American accent: https://translate.google.com/#en/ja/character%0Acare https://translate.google.com/#en/ja/character%0Acare
    • cannam 10y ago
      > The "listen" button here pronounces the words with an American accent I think that feature must be localised -- here it gives me a (female) voice with an English accent, and the two words sound quite different.
      • bschwindHN 10y ago
        Oops, I was afraid of that. I was hoping the .com domain would have an influence on which voices were picked. I can hear the difference by going to https://translate.google.co.uk/ https://translate.google.co.uk/ though
    • satysin 10y ago
      Forvo is a great site for this kind of stuff http://forvo.com/search/char/en/ http://forvo.com/search/char/en/
  • cbd1984 10y ago
    > Conversations like this are hard because accent doesn't transmit through text. It does if you use IPA.