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Article #4893Re: Pronunciation of 'char'
From: cjl
Date: Sat, 10 Oct 1987 17:11
Date: Sat, 10 Oct 1987 17:11
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> 1. One group claims it is pronounced like first syllable of "charcoal".
> 2. Another group says it is pronounced like the word "car".
> 3. Still another group says it is pronounced "care".
In daily English, we don't always pronounce the abbreviation
exactly, e.g. viz, etc. Since we already had a lot of strange user
defined names, why don't we pronounce the keywords and predefined
names by their full names ? Professional people know the corresponding
abbreviation anyway.
If the program is presented along with the speech like in classrooms,
I even recommend to pronounce the strange abbreviated user defined
names by their full names so your audience's ears won't suffer.
C.J.Lo
Dept. of CIS, IUPUI
cjl@iucs.cs.indiana.edu
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