Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cornell!biar!trebor
From: trebor@biar.UUCP (Robert J Woodhead)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: the Telephone Test (was: Re: case sensitivity)
Message-ID: <536@biar.UUCP>
Date: 5 May 89 04:22:26 GMT
References: <630@marob.MASA.COM> <699@mccc.UUCP>
Reply-To: trebor@biar.UUCP (Robert J Woodhead)
Organization: Biar Games, Inc.
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In article <699@mccc.UUCP> pjh@mccc.UUCP (Pete Holsberg) writes:
>In article <630@marob.MASA.COM> daveh@marob.masa.com (Dave Hammond) writes:
>> 	[Both posters mull over the ``char''wars

A historical note; I remember bloody religious jihads over the pronounciation
of char back in the mid '70s on the PLATO system.  PLATO had user definable
character sets or "charsets", and people were divided over whether this
should be pronounced "char-set" or "kare-set".  Probably 90% of the people
used "char-set", because, whatever the derivation of the original word,
you pronounce "charset" "char-set".  The "kare-set" dweebs were all a bunch
of elitists who didn't recognise that PLATO was for games instead of
education anyway.
-- 
Robert J Woodhead, Biar Games, Inc.  !uunet!biar!trebor | trebor@biar.UUCP
"The lamb will lie down with the lion, but the lamb won't get much sleep."
     -- Woody Allen.