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From: utoddl@uncecs.edu (Todd M. Lewis)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: How Do You Pronounce "#define"?
Summary: Glad that's settled.  What about the next word?
Message-ID: <1989Dec14.133435.26749@uncecs.edu>
Date: 14 Dec 89 13:34:35 GMT
References: <69516@psuecl.bitnet> <1043@sys.uea.ac.uk>
Organization: UNC Educational Computing Service
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In article <1043@sys.uea.ac.uk>, cmp8118@sys.uea.ac.uk (D.S. Cartwright) writes:
> 
> Personally, I pronounce it 'Hash define', 'cos having been a living English
 [...]
> Basically, # means 'number' when combined with a number, e.g. #14 is read as
> 'Number 14'. Except of course in Chinese takeaways, where #14 is read as 'Egg
> Foo Yung with Deep Fried Mushrooms and House Special Fried Rice'.
> 
> So call it whatever you want. Why not call it a Large Green Frog, that's got a 
> ring to it, hasn't it ?? 
> 
> So remember ....
> 
>                  Large Green Frog include <stdio.h>

Fine.  So how do you pronounce the difference between
   #include <some.h>
and
   #include "some.h"

I usually just say "include some dot aytch" and I wouldn't have
brought it up if it weren't so amazing how far so many people
can ride the same dead horse.

-- Todd (beating a dead horse into a ploughshare) Lewis