"Where it is in a sentence" might have been a bit too precise... I just sometimes say both. I _think_ the first one is because I learned it from READING "kludge" and pronounced that phonetically... and then also HEARING "kluge" (C) and then thinking it was the same word. And now I'm all mixed up

Though I do think I change D/E based on the phonetics of the prior word. "A database" (pronounced "uh daytabase") vs "A database" (pronounced "Ay dahtabase"), maybe in a feedble attempt to differentiate the first two syllables?