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From: pjh@mccc.UUCP (Pete Holsberg)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: the Telephone Test (was: Re: case sensitivity)
Message-ID: <699@mccc.UUCP>
Date: 3 May 89 22:10:28 GMT
References: <630@marob.MASA.COM>
Reply-To: pjh@mccc.UUCP (Pete Holsberg)
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In article <630@marob.MASA.COM> daveh@marob.masa.com (Dave Hammond) writes:
=Since `char' is derived from `character', I've always pronounced it
=`kar', resulting in expressions like `kar star' and `kar star star'.
=
=BTW, if regional affiliation matters --  I live on the East coast, but
=I was first introduced to C in the midwest.

A dead giveaway.  No died-in-the-wool Easterner could say it any way except
"kah stah stah".  (-;

My first C instructor was from Spain and he pronounced stdio.h as "stoo-dee-yo
dot aish", and pointer as "pinter".  Si?  Si.
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