[comp.lang.c] Pronunciation discussions

tswift@well.UUCP (Theodore John Swift) (10/18/87)

<comdisco@cae780.TEK.COM>'s question about 'char' has injected a lot of
fairly useless bandwidth into the group in the form of reposted quotes of
his whole posting, BUT I think it's worth finding out about.  I *mailed*
my reply, hoping to avoid just what happened.  If other quasi-trivia
questions come up, maybe the poster should offer to summarize for the net?
Simpler idea than finding a floating handle, eh?

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decot@hpisod2.HP.COM (Dave Decot) (10/22/87)

> "care" rhymes with "air".

Yes.

> The first "a" in "character" is like the "a" in "cat".

Only in Boston and New York, where "care" sounds like "KAY-a".

> I recognize the existence of people who pronounce the
> first syllable of "character" almost like "care", though; I have a
> cousin in Phoenix who pronounces the first syllable of my name like
> the word "bare", and to my Long Island ears it sounds like she says
> "beery".

Californian pronunciation should be the standard, since that's what
everyone hears on TV.  :-)

Dave Decot
Somewhere in California
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hollen@mana.megatek.uucp (Dion Hollenbeck) (10/28/87)

In article <2550030@hpisod2.HP.COM> decot@hpisod2.HP.COM (Dave Decot) writes:
>> "care" rhymes with "air".
>
etc., etc., etc.........ad nauseam.

I have been really reluctant to enter this discussion, but I am finally
fed up.  Every day I have to wade through seemingly endless replies on this
topic.  It has been beated to death already over the past MONTH!!!  Would 
people please stop cluttering up this newsgroup with this drivel. (It was
interesting for about the first 10 comments, now it is merely annoying).
People put the subject up as so many different things I cannot blythely
toss programatically all the articles, and must waste my time weeding them
out by hand.  At 1200 baud, this is a real nuisance.

My apologies for adding yet another blemish to this newsgroup but I had
to say it hoping people will FINALLY get the message.

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itkin@stsci.EDU (Elliot Itkin) (11/11/87)

While we are wasting time on the correct pronunciation of "char",
we should also worry about the pronunciations of "bin" and "lib". 
Both of these should be pronounced with a long i sound, since
they were derived from binary and library.

rjchen@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Raymond Juimong Chen) (11/11/87)

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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