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From: tel@moby.UUCP (Tom Lowe)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c,comp.lang.misc
Subject: Re: Pronunciation of 'char'
Message-ID: <110@Ahab.moby.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 9-Oct-87 11:58:33 EDT
Article-I.D.: Ahab.110
Posted: Fri Oct  9 11:58:33 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 11-Oct-87 14:50:35 EDT
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Organization: AT&T National Systems Support Center, South Plainfield, NJ
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Keywords: C language pronunciation
Summary: Who gives a &^%$#
Xref: mnetor comp.lang.c:4793 comp.lang.misc:713

> 	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".
> 
>    1. One group claims it is pronounced like first syllable of "charcoal".
>    2. Another group says it is pronounced like the word "car".
>    3. Still another group says it is pronounced "care".
> 	We would greatly appreciate any opinions on the subject.

                                                                             
                                                                             
Who really chars?!?!?!                                                  

But really, I've heard it pronounced all those ways, but most often
it has been pronounced 'care'.




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