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From: chris@mimsy.UUCP (Chris Torek)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c,comp.lang.misc
Subject: Re: Pronunciation of 'char'
Message-ID: <8975@mimsy.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 10-Oct-87 02:33:43 EDT
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Posted: Sat Oct 10 02:33:43 1987
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Organization: U of Maryland, Dept. of Computer Science, Coll. Pk., MD 20742
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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

In article <516@devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV> rich@devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Richard
Pettit) answers:
>I vote for "care", as in the first syllable of "character", because
>that's what it is, a "care"acter.

`He says po-tay-to, and she says po-tah-to, . . .'

Might I suggest that as long as it does not noticeably hamper
understanding, that you might as well ignore it?

(I say the first syllable of `character' myself; but sometimes I
say `user lihb' and sometimes I say `user libe'.  And sometimes I
have to spell it out, and it does not matter which way I pronounced
it.  `Slash uniform echo romeo slash lima india bravo slash uniform
uniform charlie papa' can help when all else fails.)
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