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From: cjdb@sphinx.UChicago.UUCP (Charles Blair)
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Subject: Re: smail pronounciation
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Date: Thu, 5-Mar-87 23:44:37 EST
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The lone Unix type in my shop pronounced "!" as "bang." Everybody else
pronounced it "gasp." So for a while there I had to watch my bangs and
gasps.

By the way, how do people pronounce "char," as in "getchar?" I've only
heard it pronounced with a soft "ch" as in "chair;" my instinct at
first was to pronounce it hard, like "car." What do others do?