Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!cca!mirror!ima!think!barmar From: barmar@think.COM (Barry Margolin) Newsgroups: comp.lang.c,comp.lang.misc Subject: Re: Pronunciation of 'char' Message-ID: <9590@think.UUCP> Date: Wed, 21-Oct-87 15:24:02 EDT Article-I.D.: think.9590 Posted: Wed Oct 21 15:24:02 1987 Date-Received: Sat, 24-Oct-87 07:38:30 EDT References: <4575@cae780.TEK.COM> <1746@homxc.UUCP> <1938@ttrdc.UUCP> Sender: usenet@think.UUCP Reply-To: barmar@sauron.UUCP (Barry Margolin) Organization: Thinking Machines Corporation, Cambridge, MA Lines: 34 Keywords: C language pronunciation Xref: mnetor comp.lang.c:5065 comp.lang.misc:765 In article <1938@ttrdc.UUCP> levy@ttrdc.UUCP (Daniel R. Levy) writes: >In article <1746@homxc.UUCP>, lewisd@homxc.UUCP (David Lewis) writes: >#> In article <4575@cae780.TEK.COM>, comdisco@cae780.TEK.COM (Comdisco) writes: >#> > 1. One group claims it is pronounced like first syllable of "charcoal". That's what I use. >#> > 2. Another group says it is pronounced like the word "car". >#> > 3. Still another group says it is pronounced "care". >#> 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"?) "care" rhymes with "air". The first "a" in "character" is like the "a" in "cat". I recognize the existence of people who pronounce the first syllable of "character" almost like "care", though; I have a cousin in Phoenix who pronounces the first syllable of my name like the word "bare", and to my Long Island ears it sounds like she says "beery". >A related issue is "bin"(ary) and "lib"(rary)? I pronounce all these things as if the expansions didn't exist, so I say "bin" and "lib" rather than "bine" and "libe". --- Barry Margolin Thinking Machines Corp. barmar@think.com seismo!think!barmar