I was watching a programming tutorial recently and I heard the teacher pronounce the datatype “char” like the word “car” and it made me think.
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It is a shortened form of the word “character” – as in “a single letter” – which you do pronounce “car-acter” – so it probably should be pronounced “car”.
Yet, I have been programming for years and I have never heard someone pronounce it like that.
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