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Really? I've always pronounced it car (kar) because it's short for character which is pronounced karakter in the first place.
by pddpro 5y ago
Really? I've always pronounced it car (kar) because it's short for character which is pronounced karakter in the first place.
- parenthesis 5y agoEverybody seems to say ree-verb as short for reverberation. I don't say "reeverberation", I say something more like "ruhverberation" — which I don't think is an odd pronunciation — hence I say "ruhverb", but people look at me funny when I do. Likewise I say char as "car".
- psyc 5y agoRight, but what sound does ‘a’ have for you? In my region, car, carrot, and care are 3 different vowel sounds (with ‘car’ being totally different from the others) and ‘character’ sounds like ‘carrot’ and not at all like ‘car’.
- oconnor663 5y agoIf "carrot" and "care" don't rhyme with each other, what other words do they rhyme with?
- messe 5y agoFor me the vowel in carrot and car is the same, while care is different and rhymes with pear.
- psyc 5y agoAgain, it's regional. I have lived in places (Washington state, I think, as well as the South) where to my ear people said 'carrot' like 'care'. But where I'm from (northeast) carrot sounds like calculus, car sounds like calm, and care sounds like mare. Care is closer to cake ('longer'), carrot is 'short' like 'at'. Car is like with a little short 'o' mixed in, like in Spanish or the posh version of 'amen'. I wish I knew the formal phonetic symbols of these, but I don't. But disambiguating these is just what they're for.
- edgyquant 5y agoI live in Washington state but hail from Illinois, I’ve never heard anyone say carrot like car. It’s always been care-at
- __d 5y agoWell, carrot rhymes with parrot :-) But also, hat or cat. Car rhymes with are, or charge. And care with pear, pair, hair, etc. But I'm Australian, so I talk funny.
- ziml77 5y agoI'm from NJ and that all aligns with my pronunciations
- __d 5y agoI used to live in Jersey City, maybe that explains it?
- ziml77 5y agoMaybe! I was actually considering saying I was from NY just to not make anyone think of a "Joisey" accent. I grew up in the suburbs which means a close tie to NYC despite the distance. And Jersey City being right across the river from NY certainly takes influence from there.