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From: levy@ttrdc.UUCP (Daniel R. Levy)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c,comp.lang.misc
Subject: Re: Pronunciation of 'char'
Message-ID: <1938@ttrdc.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 19-Oct-87 01:02:15 EDT
Article-I.D.: ttrdc.1938
Posted: Mon Oct 19 01:02:15 1987
Date-Received: Wed, 21-Oct-87 22:57:38 EDT
References: none <4575@cae780.TEK.COM> <1746@homxc.UUCP>
Organization: AT&T, Skokie, IL
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Keywords: C language pronunciation
Summary: char, car, or care?  bin or bine?  lib or libe?  ad nauseum...
Xref: mnetor comp.lang.c:5043 comp.lang.misc:758

In article <1746@homxc.UUCP>, lewisd@homxc.UUCP (David Lewis) writes:
#> In article <4575@cae780.TEK.COM>, comdisco@cae780.TEK.COM (Comdisco) writes:
#> > The debate concerns the proper
#> > pronunciation of the C language variable type "char".
#> >    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".
#> > 	We would greatly appreciate any opinions on the subject.
#>   I don't know how you pronounce the latter two in your part of the country,
#> but at my school in NYS we usually used your (1) or
#>      4. Still another group says it is pronounced like the first syllable
#> of "character."  This is not quite (2) or (3).

Suggestion (4) is basically the same thing as (3) at least in my neckuvda
woods.  (If for you it's not:  how do you say "care" and how do you say
"CHARacter"?)  Yet another possible way is to say "character" even though
that's not how it looks in the text.

A related issue is "bin"(ary)  and "lib"(rary) : do you say "bin" (like what
you put potatoes in) or "bine"?  "Lib" (as in women's lib) or "libe"?  Are there
any linguistic precedents here?  :-)
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