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I still pronounce it like lark, and I don't intend to change.

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quart rhymes with wart (and not with art, bart, cart, dart, fart, mart, part, or tart)

quark rhymes with ark, bark, dark, hark, lark, mark, nark, park, stark.

Idaho/Utah, though I developed various pronunciations from early reading rather than hearing.

I'm utterly confused. I've never heard it pronounced like "lark". When/where has that been common?

Star Trek:Deep Space 9 ?

Er, OK, I find that much closer to "quart" than "lark". Maybe we're dealing with some sort of accent/dialect issue here, and/or people are hearing something far more subtle than I am.

quart is (at least where I live) pronounced to rhyme with wort (or, I dunno, sort).

I think it's a regional/accent thing. I'm on the West Coast, and I've always used (and heard) the DS9-style intonation of the word (which, to my ear, sounds a lot more like "quart" than "lark").

Midwesterners and New Englanders are probably more likely to hear and use the "lark" pronunciation in the word. (And the James Joyce explanation needs to take into account that Joyce, being Irish, would have pronounced and rhymed things a bit differently from an American).

Midwesterner (Indiana) here. I've never heard anyone use the "lark" pronunciation.

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