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Kernighan pronounces it care as in how you say character. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=de2Hsvxaf8M&t=2m35s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=de2Hsvxaf8M&t=2m3

• jasonjei 10y ago
  Makes sense, as it's clearly an abbreviation for "character."
• cannam 10y ago
  Thank you for that link. I remember reading the "care as in character" thing years ago and just boggling at it -- who on earth makes character start with care? (As a British person, I think the first syllable of character rhymes with cat. There isn't a word that sounds like that but ending in r.) So rather than settle the question for me, it just dug the hole deeper. Listening to Kernighan, I can just about hear what that remark meant. (I say char myself, like the fish)