Barleywine
Someone should ask Henry Higgins. "You say "TARE-oh -ta, I say Ta-ROT-a."
ctrymaus just posted this very helpful link in the Doreen Virtue thread, in reply to the pronunciation discussion that happened in it.
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/tarot
No mention of "tear-oh" (rhymes with barrow).
Of course they could. Your second graders talk American - like TB. MY grandchildren could too - and the sounds they would read them as would be COMPLETELY different.I think your phonetics are completely understandable, as one would naturally need to read them in context of te-ROW pronunciations.
My second graders could decipher them....