Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!seismo!sundc!pitstop!sun!amdcad!ames!sri-spam!robert From: robert@sri-spam.istc.sri.com (Robert Allen) Newsgroups: comp.lang.c,comp.lang.misc Subject: Re: Pronunciation of 'char' Message-ID: <10730@sri-spam.istc.sri.com> Date: Fri, 9-Oct-87 16:39:47 EDT Article-I.D.: sri-spam.10730 Posted: Fri Oct 9 16:39:47 1987 Date-Received: Sun, 11-Oct-87 17:38:57 EDT References: <4575@cae780.TEK.COM> <516@devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV> <4220@zen.berkeley.edu> Reply-To: robert@sri-spam.UUCP (Robert Allen) Organization: SRI International, Menlo Park Lines: 27 Keywords: C language pronunciation Xref: mnetor comp.lang.c:4805 comp.lang.misc:717 In article <4220@zen.berkeley.edu> schung@cory.Berkeley.EDU.UUCP (Stephen the Greatest) writes: >In article <516@devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV> rich@devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Richard Pettit) writes: >>I vote for "care", as in the first syllable of "character", because > > Here's my vote for "care". I vote for "char" as in "charcoal". Just because it means something doesn't mean that you have to call it after that; otherwise UNIX people would call "vi" "vi" as in visual instead of "v i", the '*' "times" instead of "splat", etc. A few such nifty acronyms are listed below :^). "!*" - say "bang splat" "!!" - say "bang bang" "!$" - say "bang ding" Seriously, is this *really* costing some company vast amounts of money? -- --------------------------------------------------------- Robert Allen, robert@spam.istc.sri.com 415-859-2143 (work phone, days) ---------------------------------------------------------