Pronunciations (was: And how do you pronounce "csh"?)

[Richard O'Keefe]

In article <3617 at amelia.nas.nasa.gov>, samlb at pioneer.arc.nasa.gov (Sam Bassett RCD) writes:
> In article <2556 at munnari.oz.au> ok at 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 at r ak t at 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.