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Added a bullet point to "meanings for c"
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)
Older comments
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.
Strange phrase removed from the main article
In Chinese it is used to represent a vocal sound for foreigners not familiar with Ping Ing. — Monedula 08:45, 22 Apr 2005 (UTC)
- I think Ping Ing is supposed to be Pinyin, but all sounds in spoken human languages are by definition vocal so I don't know what this is trying to say. Perhaps "vocal" is supposed to mean "vowel" (cf Spanish la vocal = 'vowel'). But unfortunately I don't know too much about non-standard Chinese transliteration schemes to know for sure. — Ливай | ☺ 20:14, 22 Apr 2005 (UTC)
Swati Mridu 05:21, 20 November 2006 (UTC)
Plus sign
Why isn't a plus sign a legal character for a title?? 66.245.113.214 01:34, 8 November 2005 (UTC)
SC
I'm putting that in Old English sc=sh in Modern English.Cameron Nedland 00:10, 28 February 2006 (UTC)
Infinty and beyond!
C∞ is almost illegible on my screen, can anyone improve it? Rich Farmbrough 08:24 16 June 2006 (GMT).
Another "C"
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)
Could it possibly be ş or ţ? If these aren't the ones you are looking for, can you tell me where the squiggly line is on the letter so I can try to find it? Αδελφος (talk) 16:06, 4 December 2009 (UTC)
WTF just happened to this article?
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)
- Never mind, turned out to be a mind-boggling display of incompetence over at the Reference Desk – Gurch 14:00, 26 October 2007 (UTC)
C in Greek
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)
disambiguation
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)
excessive codes
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)
Y, too!
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)
Can we add a redirect to c++?
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)
- Why in good faith, does the see also link to c# -- C is clearly the more logical language to link to, in preference t c++ or C#! User A1 (talk) 07:04, 28 August 2009 (UTC)
i want to get some examples on CMaheshkandpal02 (talk) 09:21, 12 October 2009 (UTC)
Italian too!
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)
C-sharp
Header should link to C_Sharp_(programming_language) instead of C-sharp.
FrankTM (talk) 10:17, 29 April 2010 (UTC)
More vandalism
"I like cheesepuffs" is the latest edit, by a near-to-ban user. Please edit it ACogloc ACogloc 18:53, 5 May 2010 (UTC)