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From: jwabik@shamash.UUCP (Jeff Wabik)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c,comp.lang.misc
Subject: Re: Pronunciation of 'char'
Message-ID: <240@shamash.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 16-Oct-87 13:59:25 EDT
Article-I.D.: shamash.240
Posted: Fri Oct 16 13:59:25 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 18-Oct-87 09:44:42 EDT
References: <none> <4575@cae780.TEK.COM> <516@devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV> <4220@zen.berkeley.edu>
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Keywords: C language pronunciation
Summary: My vote ..
Xref: mnetor comp.lang.c:4978 comp.lang.misc:749

In article <4220@zen.berkeley.edu>, schung@cory.Berkeley.EDU (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".

Negative.  Methinks it is important to use ENGLISH here rather than just 
saying, "Its the first part of character, therefore 'care'."..  If it was
a standalone word, which it is (?!), it would be pronounced "char", as in
"charcoal."  Anything else might knock you out of you CHAIR.  Besides.. When
explaining casting to someone, you could then say "char star" (for (char *))..

	-Jeff