Re: [OT] How do you pronounce "varchar"?

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From: Gernot Saborowski (news_12_2004_at_spirit-of-photography.com)
Date: 12/22/04 

Date: Wed, 22 Dec 2004 09:39:19 +0100

Miroo_news wrote:
> In my country almost all programmers read
> "varchar", "char" etc as "vartschar" ("ch"
> is pronounced like in "chair").
> As I suppose "varchar" comes from "variable
> character" and so that it should be pronounced
> "varkar".
> How do you pronounce this and similar words?

[ ]vartschar
[x]varkar

Most of my colleagues as well!

Best regards from Germany,

-Gernot 

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