Found out today that "char" is not pronounced as "car".

Fuck!

OMG! Thanks. Now I found another verbal mistake in my vocabulary.

@-ANGRY-CLIENT- Apparently programmers like to pronounce the way things are written, not the way the original words are.
Examples: 'lib' not libe and 'bin' not bine 🙄

It's weird. I'll pronounce car but not when it is varchar, then it's the Ch sound.

I understand the association with the word "character" but english is and will always be a weird language... Funny thing is that my mother tongue (br-pt) made it WAAAY easier for me to read "char" the right way ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I pronounce the ch in char like in chair, but in character like in car

@irene I pronounce it as char in 'char'acter not ch as in chair, definitely not as 'kar' with a hard 'a'.

Depends on which word. If it's char from charcoal, then it's 'ch'. If it's char from character, then it's a silent h.

I've been pronouncing it wrong this whole time then :(

Am I just weird? I definitely pronouce it char but:

Why would it be car? I don't say car-acter. If anything it would be "care" because "care-acter"

@deadPix3l Fair point. To me it would be more like care-richter!

@deadPix3l English accent it would be car

@irene so you pronounce the ch in character like the ch in charcoal 😳

BWK pronounces it as "care"
Like the start of the word character

I sometimes say char as in charcoal, but i try to say it like BWK most of the time

@GodlikeBlock what is bwk?

@Konsole brian w kernighan. One of the co-authors of "The C programming language" book - aka a programmer's bible.
Also designer of awk, the k stands for kernighan

English is weird. It's kinda too late to save it though, since billions use it and it's all over the Internet.

My language had similar issues (on a much smaller scale), but it was settled during the 1900s, so now everything is read as it is written - each letter is always the same sound (except three sounds, that use two letters, but are also read the same every time).

It's much easier to read and write that way (especially for foreigners). No need to waste school time on spelling, beyond like 3rd grade of elementary school. It's kinda funny to me to see teenagers going to spelling contests in English speaking countries.

Our grammar is a lot harder than English though, so that's a minus.

Yeah, it's like charizard.

Kair

Brun brum, I'm in my mum's char.