Yesterday my friend was telling me about the “ka-BAR” knife he ordered. Is he pronouncing this the right way? As in, ka-BOOM! and not “kay-bar” or “kaah-bar?”
I have always heard and seen it as K-Bar pronounced KAY-bar. A quick google also shows variants of kbar and kabar, which could reasonably be pronounced k<schwa>-BAR.
(scwha is that upside-down e that gives a neutral vowel sound usually used to get from one consonant to another, but I don’t know how to show it on the board.)
During WW2 we in the Marine Corps were issued Kabar knives as standard equipment for combat troops.
There were two versions--------the second being an improvement over the first.
Later there was an Army Kabar and a Navy Kabar.
It was definitely pronounced as KAY-bar---------it was as simple that.
Wish I still had mine------it was a like miniature machete--------and could de-hull a coconut like cutting through butter!
EZ
I always thought a K-bar was a banana. Also known as potassium sticks.
Ha Ha Ha!!!