[OT]Silly weekend LC poll

Geoff Canyon gcanyon at gmail.com
Sun Aug 26 03:28:57 EDT 2018


I very rarely say either, but I'm pretty sure I treat them as sound
abbreviations, and pronounce them like the first syllables of the words
they represent, i.e. "care" and "loke"

On Sat, Aug 25, 2018 at 12:08 PM J. Landman Gay via use-livecode <
use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:

> I wonder how people pronounce two common LC abbreviations. In print you
> never notice but in real life I always have to translate what they're
> talking about.
>
> How do you pronounce:
>
> CHAR
>    Rhymes with "care"
>    Sounds like smoldering wood
>
> LOC
>    Rhymes with "smoke"
>    Sounds like a deadbolt
>
> I suppose there are others.
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