C# and MS

[flipdoubt]

I guess Microsoft was way off on its pronunciation:
http://pages.zoom.co.uk/leveridge/di...tml#Octothorpe

"Sharp" isn't even in the list.

[Windyblade]

I'm thinking they were more than likely referring to sheet music; when you make a note sharp, the symbol (accidental) used *does* resemble a #.

But that's still really, really wrong. o.O I mean, flats look like this: "b", but it's a lowercase b, not a flat!

[katharina]

personally, i like the unofficial term "splat" My friends and I were discussing the odd naming for C#, and we decided it was best to just pronounce it "C thingy" because nothing else made sense

[Still Shady]

C# means some thing like:

"See sharp"

or

"Vitamin C with Sharp"

or

"C just change the ++ to sharp"

but I don't really care what other says about it...

it just ownz!

[katharina]

The Register has a rather amusing article about C# and the naming controversy.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/28/26042.html

[Still Shady]

Never mind. C Splat, it is then. ®

W00t... but that article was written by english men... So it's kinda interesting...

[lookout]

That was a good link, Katharina. Here's a few more from some eminent wordsmiths:

Etymologist/ humorist Evan Morris once wrote about the origins of the octothorpe (#) symbol in one of his Word Detective columns. It echoes one of the explanations in flipdoubt's original link. Morris credits Michael Quinion's World Wide Words website as his own source on this subject.

[jorang]

Hi,

You may also read it as C .NET...

Jorge