Thank you for that link.<p>I remember reading the &quot;care as in character&quot; thing years ago and just boggling at it -- who on earth makes <i>character</i> start with <i>care</i>?  (As a British person, I think the first syllable of character rhymes with cat. There isn&#x27;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.<p>Listening to Kernighan, I can just about hear what that remark meant.<p>(I say char myself, like the fish)