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And for the few people who can't seem to get past "Tarot for Dummies," there is "DUH-ro."
Kalliope, I still can't vote. I pronounce tarot (and sparrow, barrow, etc.) with a short A, as in bat, not a short E, as in bet, or tear (tear your pants), which is also an E sound. My option (which I always thought was standard English pronunciation (and so does my dictionary)) is not represented.
2nd one - Tarot to rhyme with sparrow..
Kalliope, I still can't vote. I pronounce tarot (and sparrow, barrow, etc.) with a short A, as in bat, not a short E, as in bet, or tear (tear your pants), which is also an E sound. My option (which I always thought was standard English pronunciation (and so does my dictionary)) is not represented. If I went for TAR-oh, black, goopy tar is a long A, like the one in father, so still not the right vowel.
Absolutely NOT. Spa-rrow - with the a like the a in cat.So you don't say sparrow and barrow pretty much like spare tire or bare skin or dungeon lair? Because that's the sound Tarotbear meant by TEAR-oh. (Like the video earthair linked to: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQTYVsWmK6U )
So you don't say sparrow and barrow pretty much like spare tire or bare skin or dungeon lair? Because that's the sound Tarotbear meant by TEAR-oh. (Like the video earthair linked to: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQTYVsWmK6U )
Also, I think what you're calling a "long a" as in "father" isn't really a long a, even though it sounds broad and is held a little longer. Long a (as in what you learn to call it in elementary school) sounds like when you say the letter A, rhyming with pay. Father is something else, but I don't know what it's technically called!
Or are you from the Philly or Boston areas? I know in certain parts of the Northeast US some of the short a and e sounds can get tricky. Here's a test: do you say these words all the same way, or differently?
--Mary, marry, merry
If you say them all the same, that's common in most of the US (I saw a graph of it once), especially the midwest. People who distinguish between all three sounds are usually from specific parts of the Northeast US. Not sure how it works out for other, non-US English speakers though.
ETA: I'm originally from the Midwest, but my husband is from Philadelphia and we live near Boston. It took me LOTS of practice to even be able to HEAR the difference between the way he said those three words! It was crazy to me! Sometimes for kicks I try to get my family back home to be able to tell them apart, too.
http://dictionary.cambridge.org/pronunciation/british/tarot
http://dictionary.cambridge.org/pronunciation/british/sparrow
Sparrow has a short A sound. That's why it has an A. [ducks out before the Great Pronunciation War begins, and before the myriad inconsistencies of the English language are brought up ]
Absolutely NOT. Spa-rrow - with the a like the a in cat.