Cava - cavver or carver?

[StillCoughingandLaughing]

Just been on the phone to my mother, who was waxing lyrical about the lovely ‘cavver’ (Cava) she’s bought to go with Christmas lunch. I’ve always pronounced it ‘carver’, with a soft A, and that’s what I hear more often than not, but she’s not alone in her pronunciation, so I have a nagging doubt I could be wrong. Can I get the views of the MN jury?

YABU = Cavver with a hard A
YANBU = Carver with a soft A

Neither. It's 'caava'!

Cava

You're right

No idea which is correct but I say ‘Carver’

I agree with @pinkyredrose

Carver here.

I’d say cahvah in my Scottish accent.

What's the difference, in sound, between carver and caava?! They're the same sound to me!
Agree OP it's definitely a long 'a'

The Spanish pronounce it cava - eg una copa de cava.

Cahvah - no “r” anywhere

I think it's 'carver', but you won't try to correct her, will you?

Neither? It ends in A, so “ah” sound at the end. Where has the “er” come from?

You say Lava, not “laver” surely? If you do, I’m imagining a farmer accent, like the depths of the West Country

Definitely no 'r' anywhere in the word. Caava.

To rhyme with lava 🌋

Neither of you pronounce it how I do.

It's certain British accents that stick r sounds where they don't exist. Correct pronunciation is Cava. Cah-vah.

I think you're all wrong, I'll be pronouncing it "Rioja"

It rhymes with however you say lava, which is different in a Scottish accent to an English one.

Ca-va. No r and equal stress. Also pronounced 'Cremant'...

@pinkyredrose

Neither. It's 'caava'!

This, no “r” anywhere. But this is because I’m Scottish and other accents pronounce things differently.

It's actually 'ca - bah'. sorry and all that.
And while i'm here it's 'cho - ree - tho'.

Neither. It's 'caava'!

Just a different way of spelling ‘carver’

Definitely no 'r' anywhere in the word. Caava.

I know there isn’t literally an R in the word - I’m talking about the sound of the first syllable. If you prefer to phonetically spell it as ‘caava’, fine - the point is that there is no hard ‘A’.

Ca-va
No random r in the middle or at the end

Well why are you sticking an r into it? Let alone two r's!!

I think it's 'carver', but you won't try to correct her, will you?

Life’s too short for that!