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One thing through I have never pronounced char as car
by walshemj 8y ago
One thing through I have never pronounced char as car
- liamcardenas 8y agoMe neither, if it is supposed to be an abbreviation of "character", I would pronounce it as "care" (based on my SoCal accent, at least). I call it "char" because that's how it's spelled, though.
- jwdunne 8y agoI've always pronounced it "car". I've never made the connection with my northern English accent pronunciation of character i.e "caractah" - though the Mancunian glottal stop 'er' is hard to articulate :)
- gamma-male 8y agoWhy not? It's char as in character.
- mlthoughts2018 8y agoSo “care” then?
- abledon 8y agochar as in c-har takes less effort for the mouth to sound out instead care.
- mrcarrot 8y agoNot if you're British :)
- frutiger 8y agoHome Counties accent (or even Received Pronunciation) do not pronounce "car" and the opening syllable of "character" the same way, since the 'a' in "car" is elongated (I'm not sure what the correct linguistic term for elongation is).
- _kst_ 8y ago"19.26: How do you pronounce char? Like the first word of char *. The accent is generally on the first syllable." https://www.seebs.net/faqs/c-iaq.html https://www.seebs.net/faqs/c-iaq.html