Ardith Hinton wrote to mark lewis:   
      
    AH>                 Q.  A soldier, a sailor, and an airman were riding   
    AH>                     together in a car.  Who was driving?   
      
    AH>                 A.  The soldier, because he had the khakis.   
      
    AH> It's a pun.  Hereabouts "khaki" may be pronounced in either of two   
    AH> ways, one of which indeed sounds like "car key".  It seems to me   
    AH> that folks who live or once lived in London... or whose recent   
    AH> ancestors did... generally prefer the latter while USAians   
    AH> generally use a hard short "a" as they do in "drama" and save the   
    AH> /r/ for situations where they can actually see it in print.   
    AH> YMMV... [chuckle].   
      
   New Englander USAians, especially New Yorkers, would pronounce the /r/   
   in that, even though there isn't one.   
      
      
            R\%/itt   
      
      
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