How to Pronounce “Varchar”

Re:How to Pronounce “Varchar” by fool1987 on Tuesday October 04, 2022 @09:44AM (#33080266)

> No one argues with pronouncing the first syllables of those words with the "air" sound.

I do.

Never met anyone who would rhyme the first syllable in "character" with "air" - maybe this is true in some US accents? I'm British and would say "character" as "kah-rik-tuh" or "kah-rak-tuh" which definitely has no "air" sound anywhere.

For me, by this logic, it would be "Vair-Kar"

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Re:How to Pronounce “Varchar” by mjw1007 on Tuesday October 04, 2022 @11:17AM (#33081581)

I think we're seeing the "Mary–marry–merry merger" (specifically the Mary–marry part). [1] claims about three quarters of American English speakers suffer from it.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English-language_vowel_changes...

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Re:How to Pronounce “Varchar” by cafard on Tuesday October 04, 2022 @10:12AM (#33080662)

I have heard nobody in the US pronounce the first syllable in "character" other than as rhyming with "air".

But yes, when I (rarely) have to pronounce it, it's "vairkair".

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Re:How to Pronounce “Varchar” by pipeline_peak on Tuesday October 04, 2022 @07:00PM (#33088316)

In the US, I’ve heard both.

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