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From: ok@cs.mu.oz.au (Richard O'Keefe)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Pronunciations (was: And how do you pronounce "csh"?)
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Date: 29 Oct 89 08:29:10 GMT
References: <0400.AA0400@dcpc> <2556@munnari.oz.au> <3617@amelia.nas.nasa.gov>
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In article <3617@amelia.nas.nasa.gov>, samlb@pioneer.arc.nasa.gov (Sam Bassett RCD) writes:
> In article <2556@munnari.oz.au> ok@cs.mu.oz.au (Richard O'Keefe) writes:
> >(The first syllable of "character" does __not__ sound like "care".)

> 	It may not in Australia, but in the U.S. it does -- the
> syllabification is char-ac-ter, pronounced k@r ak t@r (@ = 'schwa')

But even in the US, the vowel in "care" is not a schwa; "care" rhymes
with "air".

> >	ex-ter-nal
> Yup -- but I'll bet he didn't want a digraph, and so used a trigraph.

"extern" is hardly a TRIgraph.