I'm not sure how you got eye-terator, but I can sort of see where 'car' came from. I guess I'm lucky here, because I learned to always say:

'char' : as in charcoal

'car' : pronounced like a car, used as (car (cons 'a 'b))

'cdr' : supposed to be 'could-er', but I flip between cee-derr and could-er

'cadaddr' : prounounced 'why'

I kid a little, but it's funny to hear these things, especially when it's from somebody from a foreign country. It wasn't until grad school that I realized there's so many different ways to pronounce keywords.

I still say 'car' out loud and in my head because the "char" type is short for "character", and the first syllable of the full word is pronounced 'car', not 'char'.

Isn't it care-actor? I can't say car-actor without hearing a fake British accent.

It's more like cah-actor, I'd say.