I too pronounce it that way, since I learned C from books and just read it as it was printed.<p>I later noticed some people do pronounce it &quot;car&quot; which just seems odd. Why change it, if it doesn&#x27;t save a syllable? It&#x27;s not a truncation of how &quot;character&quot; is said either, because that&#x27;s a different vowel sound.<p>Saying &#x27;car&#x27; causes problems when learning C++, because all OOP examples on composition start &quot;Car has-an Engine&quot;.