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

From: Ross Presser (rpresser_at_imtek.com)
Date: 12/23/04 

Date: Thu, 23 Dec 2004 13:27:51 -0500

On Wed, 22 Dec 2004 08:55:16 +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?
> Please note if you are native english speaker
> or not.
>
> There are a lot of words pronounced very differently
> for example "Delphi", ([delfee], [delfay]), "Chi-Writer"
> (do you remember?), etc
>
> Regards,
> Miroo

Sounds like "vare-kar" when I say it; the first syllable is a long a that
rhymes with "pair" (for "variable"), the second syllable is a short a that
sounds like "carry" (for "character").

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