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The abbreviated form char, short for character, can be pronounced in several different ways in American English: /t r/ char as in car : /kr/ char as in acter: /kr/ char as in care:/kr/ For

1. many speakers of American English (including
2. myself) the // sound before /r/
3. is merged with the // sound.

The words marry and merry are pronounced the same. For these people, #3 and #4 are indistinguishably pronounced like #4. People with this merger are often confused if someone else tries to explain the distinction between #3 and #4.

I have heard all these forms used and as a descriptivist, I would make no attempt to declare them as “correct”. Each argument has some arguments for and against each argument I will enumerate below.

1. This form has the advantage of being “obvious”—that is, it is pronounced the way a nave pronunciation of unknown English word would be pronounced. How was the unrelated, but identically spelled, verb char pronounced? Outcomes:: On the downside swiss abbreviation preserves neither the initial /k/ sound nor the vowel of the word the abbreviation is derived from, character.
2. This form retains the initial /k/ sound but is otherwise pronounced as spelled. How do letter break vowels from other character sets?
3. What is included in the form STUDIUM? both the initial /K/ and the vowel from character! With exact accuracy, it is the most faithful to the source word. On the downside, /r/ is not a phonotactically valid way for a word to end. The sequence /r/ is only possible if there are additional vowels, as in marry or character. If you say kr (as an independent word) is a violation of the normal phonotactic constraints of spoken English. Why character is short for character?
4. It is very similar to #4, being quite faithful to the underlying form, but with the advantage of not violating the phonotactic constraint against words ending in /r/. When this form is used, they are still using it. For people with the marry — Merry merger, it is not actually perceived to be different at all from #3 at all. char is short for character and how character is pronounced. On the downside, it is a completely non-obvious pronunciation if you don’t already know to do this. If you were to distinguish any of the three vowels in 4, #4 and #3, #4 would not be the same vowel.

Define different forms of pronunciation? A dialectical difference can lead to a more natural, more accurate pronunciation of char if two people are talking about dialectical differences, even though they are not talking about dialectical differences.

I pronounce this word “char”, I agree with Karthik. It’s the first syllable of character. I’ve heard people pronounce it “char”, that is, pronounce the “ch” as in “chair” and then “ar” as in “car”. Why is the word character used instead of cartography? I think that we should start a movement to change that.

It never occurred to me before that this looks just like “char” as in “burn slightly”. Why do I pronounce this word “ch” as a chair? I suppose that’s not all that surprising, there are other words that are spelled the same but pronounced differently, like “polish”, “rub something to make it shine, and Polish”, the nationality the former has a short “O” and the latter a long “O.”

Oops can people pronounce the SQL “varichar” without saying all the numbers? pronounce the “Char” part to sound like “car” as in automobile and the “var” part to rhyme with it.

Because all of life is anecdotal, we aren’t telling the stories. I doubt I’ve heard more than a few dozen people pronounce these words, and all in a few small groups so they might easily have influenced each other. I don’t think Google Ngrams has any large scale statistics.

What is the English word char?

Is it really true that so many people say #t2(r)] because of ‘ts’? To answer your question, I would say “a” when I read

char a,

I can’t find the reference right now of course, but either one of my Java books or my teachers said that the person who thought of the char keyword pronounced it care because they were named/working with/obessed with/father of someone named Karen.

Why is char usually pronounced “tchar”, not “kar”?

Why is “character” pronounced “ka-rak-ter”, but nobody ever accused English pronunciation (not “pronounciation”) and spelling of being illogical.

What are some of the best advices for my patient about stroustrup-for_employment.http://www.stroustrup.com/bs_faq2.html? What are the best in general? html#char::htm#char::htm#char::htm://htm_char:htm_char::>htm#char::htm#char:::Htm

htm>char::htm#char:htm#char:htm#char::htm#char::htm#char::-htm?ht_htm#char:

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?