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From: jpp@slxsys.UUCP (John Pettitt)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c,comp.lang.misc
Subject: Re: Pronunciation of 'char'
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Date: Wed, 14-Oct-87 16:57:29 EST
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Posted: Wed Oct 14 16:57:29 1987
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Behind the debate about how to pronounce 'char' is a real 
problem that does cost money.   We have to support customers
in 20 countries, often the standard of english at the other 
end is poor or is a dialect (e.g. american :-) and software
support is a real pain !  The char's that cause the most problems
are:

	!  (bang or pling)
	:  (colon or doublepoint)
	;  (semicolon)
	{ } [ ] # @  (these are often not on non english keyboards)

P.S.

In english 'Char' = tea (usually hot with milk and sugar) !

Maybe we should move this one to sci.lang or /dev/null ?


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