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From: grimlok@hubcap.UUCP (Mike Percy)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c,comp.lang.misc
Subject: Re: Pronunciation of 'char'
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Date: Sat, 10-Oct-87 11:36:41 EDT
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Posted: Sat Oct 10 11:36:41 1987
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in article <10732@sri-spam.istc.sri.com>, robert@sri-spam.istc.sri.com (Robert Allen) says:
>> >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!
> 
> 	So, by the same chain of logic a "char *fred" is "care pointer
> 	fred" instead of "char star fred"? :-)
> -- 

Ah ha! Although I usually say care I know what someone means when they
say char(cole). BUt it just dawned on me after reading the above "char
star fred"...char and star ---  rhyme. Since char *var is probably the
most used combination of char and the *, it appeals to people to have it
flow when spoken. Incedently I was glad to know that I am not the only
lost soul who says ! (bang), everyone here laughs at me when I say that
(wimper) I also say vi as in vi-tality becuse it is one syllable as
opposed to v i. vi-sual sounds like a caveman asking for food.

I thought I was wrong once, but I was mistaken.

"Be careful out there"

Grimlok (aka Mike Percy)