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.