caron

[Douglas G. Wilson]

Arnold Zwicky wrote:
>
> meanwhile, no one yet addressed the question of how people who use the
> word *pronounce* it.
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Here's one single assertion from the Web:

http://www.phantomranch.net/folkdanc/teaching/diacritics.htm

"KHAR-un" ... I guess this probably means /'kar at n/ ... the first
syllable is not the same as in "caret", according to this item.

-- Doug Wilson

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