the Telephone Test (was: Re: case sensitivity)

[Dave Hammond]

One person writes:
>> On the East Coast, it is pronounced "care". Here in Silicon Valley, it
>> is pronounced "char".

Another person writes:
>Yeah!  I like to declare:
>	char (like a well-done steak) splat splat arg-vee
>but always, at the top of my routines, I:
>	pound include studio-h (dancers might include studio-54 :->)

My two cents worth:

Since `char' is derived from `character', I've always pronounced it
`kar', resulting in expressions like `kar star' and `kar star star'.

The standard io header filename is pronounced `S T D eye-oh dot H',
making its program inclusion line is `pound include S T D eye-oh dot H'.

The contents of Array[] location subscript N is `Array sub N'.

>I've also noticed the following:
>	while see equals get-char bang-equals eee-oh-ef . . .

Sounds right to me.

BTW, if regional affiliation matters --  I live on the East coast, but
I was first introduced to C in the midwest.

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Dave Hammond
daveh at marob.masa.com