which pronunciation for clarity is more popular?

0In standard British English, 'clarity' is normally pronounced ['klariti] or ['klar05000ti]. 030srchttp://dictionary.cambridge.org/assets/phonetics/A3.gif

0 Hi,02br
00I used to pronounce the a's in those kinds of words the same as the "a" in "cat", /æ/ - /kæt/ (IPA).02br
00Now I'm trying to change that, and I always try to pronounce those a's followed by r's as in "air", /er/ (IPA).02br
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00So I used to say "clarity" as /klærəti/ (precise IPA transcription: /klæɹəɾi/)02br
00and now I say "

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00 as shown below, would you like to tell me which pronunciation is more popular?12blockquote

10The first one. (No surprise there. Normally dictionaries list them in that order.) The second is heard more in areas along the East Coast. You're right. But not even the entire East Coast. Far more Americans throughout the entire U.S. us

0Thank you all for these comments. CJ, I did not ask that question about character, but thanks for putting them together to help me understand this issue better.02br
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00By my feeling, American pronunciation is "longer" and sometimes "cumbersome" in contrast to British counterpart. Do you agree with this?01blockquote

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01cite10Jim12cite10Didn't you ask the same question, more or less, about 11i10character12i10? The same idea applies to both.12blockquote

10LOL, why do you think it's always me who asks questions here? 05000 It was Osee that asked, but you are right, I once asked about the same thing, "charac

0In General American, it is pronounced [k_hlEr@4i]. Certain East Coast dialects do not have the very-vary merger, and still pronounce it with /æ/. Speakers with the Canadian or California vowel shifts will pronounce /E/ as [æ] however.0-

0I don't think the California vowel shift has caught up with me yet. 050010id1

0 >> I don't think the California vowel shift has caught up with me yet. 02<<
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00When I was in California last, it seemed to be fairly consistent in only young women, although I did hear it occasionally in most people's speech that I talked to. 0-

0 To sum up, I think clarity could be pronounced three ways (and also somewhere in between this three ways):02br
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001 - /klærəti/ 02br
002 - /klɛrəti/02br
003 - /klerəti/ --> 01a05000 02a02br
00 carrot: /kerət/ --> 01a

0 Kooyeen, there is something that you should know. While it is true that North American English has tense-lax neutralization before /r\/, thus [klerə4i] and [klɛrə4i] are heard as the same, I would say that most speakers of General American English, use a vowel closer to [ ɛ ] , so why did you decided to switch to #3 instead of #3? Btw, since you do have a Western accent, and many Westerners