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From: brianc@cognos.uucp (Brian Campbell)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c,comp.lang.misc
Subject: Re: Pronunciation of 'char'
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Date: Wed, 14-Oct-87 11:47:26 EDT
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Posted: Wed Oct 14 11:47:26 1987
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In article <10730@sri-spam.istc.sri.com> robert@sri-spam.UUCP (Robert Allen) writes:
> I vote for "char" as in "charcoal".

  I, too, vote for CHARcoal...
  
> ...  A few such nifty acronyms are listed below :^).
> 
> 	"!*" - say "bang splat"
> 	"!!" - say "bang bang"
> 	"!$" - say "bang ding"

  And what about:

	"\!*" - say "bash bang splat"

  Holy sound effects, Batman!
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