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From: cjl@iucs.cs.indiana.edu
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Subject: Re: Pronunciation of 'char'
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Date: Sat, 10-Oct-87 13:11:00 EDT
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>  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".

In daily English, we don't always pronounce the abbreviation 
exactly, e.g. viz, etc. Since we already had a lot of strange user
defined names, why don't we pronounce the keywords and predefined 
names by their full names ? Professional people know the corresponding 
abbreviation anyway. 

If the program is presented along with  the speech like in classrooms, 
I even recommend to pronounce the strange abbreviated user defined 
names by their full names so your audience's ears won't suffer.


C.J.Lo
Dept. of CIS, IUPUI
cjl@iucs.cs.indiana.edu
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