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> /var: rhymes with jar While I've heard people pronounce it that way, given that "var" is short for "variable" or "varying" (as in capable of changing), I've
by JoshTriplett 6y ago
> /var: rhymes with jar
While I've heard people pronounce it that way, given that "var" is short for "variable" or "varying" (as in capable of changing), I've primarily heard people pronounce it as the first syllable of "variable": vair.
(I have also, rarely, heard people pronounce "variable" as though the first syllable rhymes with "far".)
- kergonath 6y agoIsn’t there a US/UK difference? It seems to me that English people pronounce this closer to (though not exactly) a as in “jar” than to e as in “very”, though I think I’ve heard both ends of the spectrum. To my (admittedly non-native) ears, an open and long sound is strange in such a word, and the closed a sounds better. Same with i versus ai in bin or lib.