I too pronounce it that way, since I learned C from books and just read it as it was printed. I later noticed some people do pronounce it "car" which just seem

I too pronounce it that way, since I learned C from books and just read it as it was printed. I later noticed some people do pronounce it "car" which just seems odd. Why change it, if it doesn't save a syllable? It's not a truncation of how "character" is said either, because that's a different vowel sound. Saying 'car' causes problems when learning C++, because all OOP examples on composition start "Car has-an Engine".