When reading code out loud, any phonetic pronunciation is for clarity of letter of the word, or more properly, the reserved word of the computer language. Is, thus, separate and distinct from any pronunciation of the phrase it abbreviates?

Therefore: (American English) ‘char’ the ‘ch’ as in church, change, charge, and march; and the ‘ar’ as in car, far, mar, march, tar, and target;

or consider march, drop the m sound, and transpose the ar and ch for ‘char’

If we, in the United States, write a l with ar and ch as “Char” I can not address how many other English speakers can understand the words code What is the appropriate word to refer to an utterance rather

than the abbreviation?