I was reminded again how much the mispronouncing of char bothers me. I was at an AP Workshop this weekend and one of the presenters consistently makes this mistake.<\/p>\n
I maintain that if you pronounce it as it is spelled — ‘char’ as in burned — you don’t get the concept and neither will your students. <\/p>\n
char is short for character. It should be pronounced as an abbreviation for character, thus pronounced ‘care’, not ‘char’. <\/p>\n
It’s like int for integer.<\/p>\n
It automatically turns me off the speaker, because they just don’t get the concept.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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