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From: lewisd@homxc.UUCP (David Lewis)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c,comp.lang.misc
Subject: Re: Pronunciation of 'char'
Message-ID: <1746@homxc.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 15-Oct-87 13:34:17 EDT
Article-I.D.: homxc.1746
Posted: Thu Oct 15 13:34:17 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 17-Oct-87 09:54:27 EDT
References: none <4575@cae780.TEK.COM>
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Red Hill Site, NJ
Lines: 24
Keywords: C language pronunciation
Summary: CHARacter
Xref: mnetor comp.lang.c:4935 comp.lang.misc:745

In article <4575@cae780.TEK.COM>, comdisco@cae780.TEK.COM (Comdisco) writes:
> 
> 	We are having an intense debate in our company which is costing
> us an enormous amount of time and money.  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).


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David B. Lewis    {ihnp4,allegra,ulysses}!homxc!lewisd
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