I don&#x27;t know what happened to my post but i meant &quot;car as in character is stupid&#x2F;ambiguous&quot;.  But it&#x27;s perfectly possible to understand &quot;car as in carpet&quot; and it&#x27;s generally possible to find a similar pronunciation of a sound.<p>&quot;Plenty of people&quot; is misleading.  Plenty as in thousands, millions of people worldwide, possibly, not not plenty as a percentage of the english people world.  I&#x27;d be surprised if more than 5% of english speakers look at an IPA description of a sound and do anything other than go &quot;what the fuck does that mean?&quot;.