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From: bright@dataio.Data-IO.COM (Walter Bright)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c,comp.lang.misc
Subject: Re: Pronunciation of 'char'
Message-ID: <1384@dataio.Data-IO.COM>
Date: Fri, 9-Oct-87 12:51:47 EDT
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Posted: Fri Oct  9 12:51:47 1987
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Keywords: C language pronunciation
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In article <4575@cae780.TEK.COM> comdisco@cae780.UUCP (Comdisco) writes:
>	We are having an intense debate in our company which is costing
>us an enormous amount of time and money.  The debate concerns the proper
>pronunciation of the C language variable type "char".

char is short for character, therefore it is pronounced 'care'.

Here's to another worthless topic of discussion!