Poll: How do you pronounce "char"

[irishScott]

char, as in charred flesh, or a planet from Starcraft for the nerds among us. 🙂
car, as in vroom
chair, as in what your ass is probably sitting on right now
care, as in caring

<-------- char FTW!

 

[Snapster]

Is there any other way ?

 

[irishScott]

Originally posted by: Snapster
Is there any other way ?

I've heard all of the above.

 

[Snapster]

Seriously, if someone who could program for sh1t pronounced it like chair in front of me I would probably just laugh at them.
😕

 

[g8wayrebel]

Chared flesh?? If by that you mean somewhat burnt , I'd have thought it had to r's = charred.
The spell checker agrees with me and then pronunciation isn't an issue.

 

[DaveSimmons]

Care as in character.

We Char a Lot!

 

[troytime]

i can't recall how i pronounce 'char', i dont remember actually talking about it

i alternate with varchar "vair chair" and "varrr charrrr" (without the pirate accent)

 

[brandonb]

Every place I've ever worked, and heard, probably 3 dozen people. All except one would call it "char"... Char[6]... Except one person that would say "Varcar[6]" (he was talking SQL)

 

[Cogman]

I usually just say string 😉 But usually say Char.

 

[txrandom]

Char as in Charizard.

 

[SoundTheSurrender]

I called it care.

 

[slugg]

+1 for vroom vroom

 

[clarkey01]

CHAR as the in the planet that Galvatron and the decepticons were trapped on in the transformers !!!!!!!!

 

[Crusty]

Originally posted by: txrandom
Char as in Charizard.

Beat me to it 🙁

 

[PhatoseAlpha]

Care, as in the first syllable of character. Or carrot.

 

[Rainsford]

"Char", as in how I would normally pronounce a world spelled c-h-a-r. 😉

Of course it's pretty rare that I deal with single byte values that are actually characters anyways, so in the interest of accuracy, I tend to most often pronounce it "uint8".

 

[acheron]

Char, like the Starcraft planet.

I've known a lot of people who say "car" though. (Generally SQL-y people; is this what they teach in DBA classes?)

 

[nakedfrog]

I alternate between char/car with no real pattern (AFAIK).

 

[wwswimming]

car like in carrot. silly rabbit !

 

[alocurto]

Car. How do people pronounce Varchar? I say var-car.

 

[jalaram]

Originally posted by: nakedfrog
I alternate between char/car with no real pattern (AFAIK).

Ditto although I tend to say car more often.

 

[Thyme]

Originally posted by: troytime
i can't recall how i pronounce 'char', i dont remember actually talking about it

i alternate with varchar "vair chair" and "varrr charrrr" (without the pirate accent)

I'd love to work somewhere where they did refer to it using a pirate accent.

 

[dighn]

char like charred

 

[Aikouka]

Char.

 

[MrChocolateBear]

I say "char" because no one seems to understand what I mean when I say "care".