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Originally Posted by arjaybe
I just listened to the Italian pronunciation and it sounded like a short a to me.
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It is a short "a". The only way to get an "ah" sound in Italian is to write "ar", as in words like "parma". The "a" is "pasta" (both of them, in fact) is the same as the "a" in "cat". It's not the same sound as the "ar" in "cart".