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From: dasher@netcom.com (Anton Sherwood)
Subject: pronouncing math
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Mark Anthony Beadles  <beadles@techsmith.com> says:
: In the computer programming field, we use similar tricks to
: express computer 'languages' like Lisp or C in spoken English.
: One of the most common things is to refer to a '(' or ')' as
: a 'paren', pronounced /'pEr@n/.

I nearly always hear it as /p@'rEn/.  
Anybody know where the dialect boundary is?
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