Huh? A Carat is a vegetable.  I'm told that Parat's eat' em.  But not if
they're raten.

ChrisR in SF (and missing the Van-O-Rama, dang.)

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Jake de Villiers
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Subject: Re: What's a "carat"?

No you've got it right, its "cah-RAHT".

On 9/8/07, Peter T. Owsianowski <pnoceanwesty@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> So, VW's Carat is pronounced "Carrot" like diamond measurement ( or
> vegetable), not "Cah-Raht"?
>
> Pete
> '79 Westy "Aardvark"
> '87 Westy "Joe's Van"
> WWW. Busesbythebeach.com
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> > A carat is a measure of weight used in the precious stones trade, or
> > gemstones, including diamonds,
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Jake
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