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Re: Kari pronunciation?
The Scandinavian pronunciation would be "KAH-ree", but in English-speaking countries it's probably a variant spelling of Carrie.
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It varies. Where I live (West Coast), Kari is pronounced like Carrie. In certain other areas, I would expect it to be said with the vowel of "cat." This is purely a dialectal difference. If directly borrowed from a Scandinavian language, it would probably have the vowel of "father."
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Heh... where I am (UK) and also in Australia, Carrie and cat have the same vowel sound.
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Ha..perhaps I should have said that in my dialect, Kari sounds like Kerry. It also sounds like Carrie. They're all the same, with an AIR- sound. "A as in cat" does not exist before R in my dialect.This is a good example of why it's so tricky to even discuss pronunciation without recourse to the IPA.

This message was edited 5/6/2012, 1:44 PM

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