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Old 23-Dec-2006, 05:19
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how do you pronounce "a" in "a car"?

I heard people in the US pronounce it "ei car" (normally I pronounce it "e car")

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It can be pronounced like that to stress it, but it's normally an unstressed schwa sound (like 'uh').
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