Disclaimer: The views of this author do not reflect the views of Viget or the Viget Dev team. As a matter of fact, most of them disagree with him on this point.
Almost one year ago, I sparked a debate in our Dev team's Slack channel over pronunciation of the word "varchar" when I posted the following message:
I just want to put it out there that "varchar" should be pronounced with both syllables rhyming with "air" instead of rhyming with "bar".
It was met with a lot of disagreement and minimal[^1] support. Ever since that fateful day this topic has weighed heavy upon me. I just could not believe how so many of my respected peers could be so completely and utterly wrong. Not only were some of them rhyming the syllables with the word "bar", but some even had the audacity to use the "ch" sound in the second syllable.