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From: rjchen@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Raymond Juimong Chen)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c,comp.lang.misc
Subject: Re: Pronunciation discussions (was Pronunciation of 'char')
Message-ID: <1095@phoenix.Princeton.EDU>
Date: Tue, 10-Nov-87 19:42:50 EST
Article-I.D.: phoenix.1095
Posted: Tue Nov 10 19:42:50 1987
Date-Received: Fri, 13-Nov-87 03:14:08 EST
References: <4236@well.UUCP> <92@ra>
Reply-To: rjchen@phoenix.UUCP (Raymond Juimong Chen)
Organization: Princeton Univ. Computing and Information Technology
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Keywords: C language pronunciation
Summary: No!  Don't do it!
Xref: mnetor comp.lang.c:5357 comp.lang.misc:886

In article <92@ra> itkin@stsci.EDU (Elliot Itkin) writes:
>"bin" and "lib".... 
>Both of these should be pronounced with a long i sound, since
>they were derived from binary and library.

Stop it!  The pronunciation wars over "char" and "*" were bad enough.

I say "bin" should be pronounced "dwat" and "lib" should be pronounced
"frutz".  And the word "snap" should clearly be pronounced "schnapp"
since it is obviously a derivative of the Middle Low German word
"snappen" which is pronounced "schnappen".

Seriously, folks, stop it.  I say "tomato" and you say "tomato".
Let's call the whole thing off.

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