‘A’ as in ‘car’, or ‘A’ as in ‘care’? Yes, I might be being facetious, but letters are divorced from pronunciation, and the great vowel shift made that signifi

‘A’ as in ‘car’, or ‘A’ as in ‘care’? Yes, I might be being facetious, but letters are divorced from pronunciation, and the great vowel shift made that significantly worse amongst European languages.