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1. If for "technical" "reasons" C# redirects here, then remove the "For the programming language, see C Sharp (programming language)". Just add the regular "For other uses, see C (disambiguation)" to be impartial to all other computer languages.
2. It's even more absurd that the C# (musical note) comes after and not before that absurd Microsoft propaganda. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 177.18.146.2 ( talk) 13:18, 24 January 2014 (UTC)
I think the letter ج and ح have nothing to do with the letter C in the way its pronounced at all. The shape seems similar, but not the pronounciation. س is more likely the word that's appropriate (though the shapes aren't really similar). —Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.246.160.46 ( talk) 22:58, 24 October 2010 (UTC)
the element C = Carbon can take amazing forms like coal, diamaong, graphite, peat, and C60. People who have academic interest can read up articles on bucky ball Swati Mridu 17:35, 19 November 2006 (UTC)
Look at what
A and
B now have pictures for; why doesn't C have any??
66.32.138.124 02:46, 24 Apr 2004 (UTC)
I almost feel stupid adding this as late as three years later, but here it goes anyway. For a long time, C and G were the same letter. So you will find the history of this glyph under.
In Chinese it is used to represent a vocal sound for foreigners not familiar with Ping Ing. — Monedula 08:45, 22 Apr 2005 (UTC)
Swati Mridu 05:21, 20 November 2006 (UTC)
Why isn't a plus sign a legal character for a title?? 66.245.113.214 01:34, 8 November 2005 (UTC)
I'm putting that in Old English sc=sh in Modern English. Cameron Nedland 00:10, 28 February 2006 (UTC)
C∞ is almost illegible on my screen, can anyone improve it?
Rich
Farmbrough 08:24
16 June
2006 (GMT).
I'm reading Locke's second treatise, and I'm seeing characters I cannot name.
Every time an 's' or a 'c' is followed by a 't', I see this squiggle-thing connected to the s or the c.
What character is this, and where can I find a copy of it online? I'm planning to write an essay on Locke, and I'm very particular about getting every character correct in my quotations. Thanks in advance.
69.255.77.112 23:37, 27 March 2007 (UTC)
Has someone linked it prominently from a help page as a joke or something? Posts from newbies asking how to do stuff keep showing up at the bottom – Gurch 13:39, 26 October 2007 (UTC)
I have been reading a lot of hand written Greek text that were written before the invention of minisule (small letters). In these Greek text, the letter Sigma is clearly written as a Capital C. When I cross reference the text that I am reading to a copy in minisule i see that indeed it is a Sigma and not a Gamma. I suppose the most famous example of these text is the Codex Vaticanus. Does anyone know if there is a history between this Greek C that stood for Sigma and the Latin C that jumps sounds from almost a Sigma to Sigma to Kappa? I would love if someone could find out and enhance this article. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 60.47.40.84 ( talk) 08:06, 20 November 2007 (UTC)
C-sharp seems to summarize most of the redirect/disambiguations that are within this article. Anyone game to make changes? -- CyclePat ( talk) 16:09, 10 January 2008 (UTC)
computer codes are good but it annoys me how the same ascii codes are repeated 4 times, it should just say them one, and then link to the pages of the encodings so that people can figure it out themselves. As i understand people link to google and the copy and paste you could include a nice little chart of the common ways of writing the same ascii numbers. Scientus ( talk) 00:47, 11 December 2008 (UTC) . —Preceding unsigned comment added by 78.13.166.63 ( talk) 14:25, 23 December 2008 (UTC)
In English, French and Spanish, C takes the "hard" value [k] finally and before A, O, and U, and a "soft" value [s] before E and I.
It is also soft before Y... this should be noted. And also hard before a consonant sound, like in "cranberry". 192.197.178.2 ( talk) 13:47, 23 April 2009 (UTC)
I'll second that, and add another request -- remove (or explain) the "soccer" entry -- how does it not follow the rules it is supposed to be an exception to? One C is after an O, which supposed to make it hard (which it does), and the other C is after a consonant, which also makes it hard (which it does). Is this supposed to be an "exception" somehow to the rules in that it follows the as of yet unmentioned rule that C is hard after consonants? Christophre ( talk) 16:13, 3 June 2009 (UTC)
I noticed there's a message to redirect to C# (programming language) but not C++, even though C++ redirects to this page. can someone add C++ here too? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Rlbond86 ( talk • contribs) 17:33, 4 July 2009 (UTC)
i want to get some examples on C Maheshkandpal02 ( talk) 09:21, 12 October 2009 (UTC)
C# is linked to because if you type it in the search box you get directed to "C". 72.152.47.197 ( talk) 18:36, 14 February 2011 (UTC)
In English, French and Spanish, C takes the "hard" value [k] finally and before A, O, and U, and a "soft" value [s] before E and I. But italian also do this... can anyone correct? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Krnlpk ( talk • contribs) 22:28, 8 December 2009 (UTC)
Header should link to C_Sharp_(programming_language) instead of C-sharp.
FrankTM (
talk) 10:17, 29 April 2010 (UTC)
Please link to the correct C_Sharp_(programming_language) page. ATM its linking back to this page.-- 86.56.150.204 ( talk) 15:39, 11 May 2013 (UTC)
"I like cheesepuffs" is the latest edit, by a near-to-ban user. Please edit it ACogloc ACogloc 18:53, 5 May 2010 (UTC)
Speed_of_light is denoted by c. This needs to be here or we need a disambiguation page. 63.237.132.170 ( talk) 19:34, 5 October 2010 (UTC)
Eg: 'For technical reasons, C# redirects here. For uses of C#, see C-sharp.' Should be; For technical reasons, C redirects here. For uses of C, see C (programming language). The link being: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C_(programming_language). Headchopperz ( talk) 15:36, 5 November 2010 (UTC)
I do think that C should actually direct to the programming language, not the letter. Sure, it's a letter and all, but information on "C" as a programming language is more important than as a letter, although the letter itself may be more important. Google: "c" code: About 368,000,000 results (0.28 seconds). Google: "c" letter: About 255,000,000 results (0.16 seconds). Information about C is more notable, C(programming language) has strongly affected the culture of technology, while C(letter) is just an unimportant placeholder for our alphabet. The history of the single letter is trivial, there are lots of languages in the world without the letter. Yet C was utilized for many aspects of technology, operating systems, browsers, interpreted and dynamic languages etc. Almost all production level software(excluding assembly level) is written in either C or it's spin offs(C++, C#, C--, Objective-C, etc.) But I would agree the redirect notice is correct, typing C# will redirect you to this page as # is a metacharacter. 72.152.38.208 ( talk) 19:56, 31 January 2011 (UTC)
In "Later Use", there is a list of pronunciations of C in many language. The Mandrin is in this lis:
I believe a better description should be like this:
114.25.179.99 ( talk) 05:41, 5 June 2011 (UTC)
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C# redirects to this page. It would be an excellent idea to put in a link to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C_sharp as additional disambiguation (I was looking for the article for the C# programming language, for instance) 66.207.208.98 ( talk) 21:10, 6 November 2012 (UTC)
for people competent in Javascript, it would be easy to redirect people going for " http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C#" to " http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C-sharp_(disambiguation)" and for people competent in PHP, it would be easy to redirect people searching for "C#" to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C-sharp_(disambiguation)
... javascript proof of concept:
if(window.location.href.substr(-2).toUpperCase()==='C#'){window.location.replace(' http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C-sharp_(disambiguation)');}
PHP proof of concept ( / in this website):
<?php if(isset($_GET['search']) && strtoupper($_GET['search'])==='C#'){ header('Location: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C-sharp_(disambiguation)',true); die(); }
?>
Divinity76 ( talk) 09:12, 26 December 2012 (UTC)
Is this right?? I need to touch the top of my mouth with the center of my tongue, in contrast with the familiar sounds of t and k, which use the tip and back of my tongue. Thus, the sound is between t and k. Did I get it right?? Georgia guy ( talk) 15:33, 17 October 2013 (UTC)
Currenly the top of the page states: For technical reasons, "C#" redirects here. For the programming language, see C Sharp (programming language). For C-sharp, see C♯ (musical note).
I recommend the order of the "C# programming language" and the "C# musical note" be swapped. The musical note is much more widespread than the programming language. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.97.221.98 ( talk) 20:15, 18 November 2013 (UTC)
Physical unit Coloumb, fundamental unit of electrical charge.
Capacitance, the ability of enclosed space to store electrical charge.
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It is named see (pronounced /ˈsiː/) in English.[1]
Kostaslord ( talk) 00:52, 25 March 2015 (UTC)
Fixed In this English language work published in 1804 the letter pair "ct" has a loop from the C to the T. Is this a typographic ligature or a letter? If a letter then what is this called and should it be in this article? It's not a Ƈ nor a stretched C. Note that the letter "s" when in the middle of word is printed in this work using "ſ" (long s). -- Marc Kupper| talk 22:02, 26 August 2015 (UTC)
Given the way Wiki works, there's probably text already in the article that needs to be sourced to these, but in the meantime I'll leave them here for people to go through and see if there's anything helpful:
— LlywelynII 09:52, 16 February 2016 (UTC)
Thus, to show the etymology, English spelling has advise, devise, instead of advize, devize, which while advice, device, dice, ice, mice, twice, etc., do not reflect etymology; example has extended this to hence, pence, defence, etc., where there is no etymological reason for using ⟨c⟩. The first clause seems to contradict itself - the spelling shows the etymology, but doesn't' reflect etymology(?!). And I'm not sure what "example has extended this to" means. (Well, I think I know what it's intended to mean - that the spelling pattern has been continued to other words, but it's not a phrase that I've seen used before). Iapetus ( talk) 09:02, 8 July 2016 (UTC)
@ Tamfang: Well than could you clarify that in the article? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2600:6c44:237f:accb:44d1:46d3:94b9:5f7f ( talk) 15:25, 1 December 2020 (UTC)
Czech Wikipedia has this, but English Wikipedia not.
Maybe add this?
[[File:Pronunciation of C in Europe.png|thumb|Pronunciation of written <c> in European languages]]
46.130.73.0 ( talk) 17:18, 27 October 2016 (UTC)
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Please add
between
and
This article needs additional citations for
verification. (December 2014)
108.180.194.7 ( talk) 15:11, 20 February 2018 (UTC)
A user named Учхљёная added complete infoboxes for A and B, but it wasn't complete for the letter C. What other symbols are related to C?? I would answer as follows:
The Phoenician letter gimel gave rise to Greek gamma, Latin C, and Cyrillic Ge. The Hebrew gimel (one of the signs on a dreidel) is obviously one of C's sisters, but how about in other alphabets?? Also C has a descendant you are probably familiar with if you play the viola, the alto clef. But does the alto clef have a unicode symbol?? Georgia guy ( talk) 23:02, 24 February 2018 (UTC)
Because of technical issues, Talk:C/1980 E1 links back to Talk:C. Can someone fix this? Hdjensofjfnen (If you want to trout me, go ahead!) 23:31, 25 September 2018 (UTC)
The article at present contains some highly speculative remarks but which could lead the unwary to have unjustified expectations. For normal human eyes, a comet at magnitude eight is not visible with the naked eye, even from a remote location. Experience shows that it is unwise to speculate about a comet's perihelion magnitude on the basis of early outbursts, and I have modified the suggestion that it could become as bright as the Sun. Robin Scagell ( talk) 10:39, 19 March 2020 (UTC)
How is the most common pronunciation /ts/ if this phoneme currently doesn't even appear in the table of possible pronunciations?
On a more general note, how is this "most common pronunciation" determined? I saw a few other interesting choices for articles on other letters. Is there any source being used? ~hb2007 09:00, 12 August 2020 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Hb2007 ( talk • contribs)
The section names him a "specialist in the field," with no citation. That seems a bit like POV pushing to me... can anyone else find info to back that claim up? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2600:6C44:237F:ACCB:44D1:46D3:94B9:5F7F ( talk) 15:19, 1 December 2020 (UTC)
in the list of different phonemes represented by ⟨c⟩, it says that in pinyin it stands for /t͡ɕʰ/, but in actuality that sound is written as ⟨ Q⟩ and C is / t͡sʰ/. This page─as with all the other Letters of the Alphabet─is protected, so I can't make the edit, but maybe an admin or more experienced user could? Thanks. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2600:6c44:237f:accb:44d1:46d3:94b9:5f7f ( talk) 15:44, 1 December 2020 (UTC)
I think that first of all, "sch" should be WikiLinked to the informative article on this multigraph, and secondly that the Italian pronunciation of it as /sk/ before Front vowels as opposed to /ʃ/ needs to be mentioned, and perhaps even the Dutch language realization of it as not a trigraph but a sequence of ⟨ s⟩ and the digraph ⟨ c h⟩, which (at least normally) represents x, thus meaning sch=Dutch pronunciation: [/sx/]. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2600:6c44:237f:accb:44d1:46d3:94b9:5f7f ( talk) 16:06, 1 December 2020 (UTC)
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Mandarin Pinyin utilizes <c> for /tsʰ/, not /tɕʰ/. Omoutuazn ( talk) 14:09, 10 December 2020 (UTC)
Under the History panel, on the right, it says that Greek Gamma derives directly from Arabic Ǧīm (and thus Latin C/G would also derive from it). However, it seems to me that Greek Gamma is a sister of Arabic Ǧīm; I mean, isn't Greek Gamma derived directly from Phoenician Gaml?. In fact, according to "Nabataean Alphabet" articlereally , Arabic alphabet developed around 4th century BCE, while according to "History of the Greek alphabet", the Greek adopted the Phoenician alphabet around the 8th century BCE.
Therefore, it seems unlikely to me that Greek Gamma derived from Arabic Ǧīm. Yea, I know using Wikipedia articles as reference for other Wikipedia articles is bad, but these references are for discussion purposes only. I'm sure we can get actual references if we end up needing them. I am not sure about my position though, it is just really weird that this is not mentioned in the whole article, except for the History panel, besides everything I said before, so I am opening this discussion.
Another issue is that Latin "G" Wikipedia article does not list Arabic Ǧīm as its ancestor, but Latin G derives from Latin C, and so, if Ǧīm really were an ancestor of C, we should list it as an ancestor of G as well. It seems to me, however, that reality is the other way around: we should remove Ǧīm from C's ancestorship, because it does not seem to be C/G ancestor at all, only a sister sign. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Brunoczim ( talk • contribs) 18:37, 10 December 2020 (UTC)
The following paragraph on the palatalization of C in CE [The soft c may represent the [ʃ] sound in the digraph ci when this precedes a vowel, as in the words 'delicious', etc., and also in the word "ocean" and its derivatives.] should be edited to include [and in a few other words, such as crustecean, curvaceous, sebaceous, liquorice]. Katarina Harlan ( talk) 19:37, 6 October 2021 (UTC)
" The Old English Latin-based writing system was learned from the Celts, apparently of Ireland;" should have a source attached? 2.28.49.129 ( talk) 16:39, 28 August 2023 (UTC)