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 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)