Re: CHAR or CAR Survey

From: Richard Foote <richard.foote_at_bigpond.com>
Date: Fri, 19 Jul 2002 22:45:27 +1000
Message-ID: <LKTZ8.38634$Hj3.116970@newsfeeds.bigpond.com>

I've always pronounced David Bowie, David Bow(as in tie a bow)-ee, but I know of many others that like to pronounce it David Bow(as in ship)-ee.

Pretty fascinating stuff.

Sorry, just couldn't resist :)

Richard
"Alan" <alanshein_at_erols.com> wrote in message news:ah70ht$r20st$1_at_ID-114862.news.dfncis.de...
> Just curious...
>
> I've heard CHAR pronounced as "car" and as "char" (as when you almost burn
> something). Which do you favor?
>
> While we're on the subject, in varchar, do you say vare or vahr? I've also
> heard bothm, though "vahr" seems to be a clear winner. "Vare" seems to be
a
> function of accent/dialect.
>
>
Received on Fri Jul 19 2002 - 07:45:27 CDT