John Salerno wrote: > Yes, silly question, but it keeps me up at night. :) > > I know it comes from the suffix -tuple, which makes me think it's > pronounced as 'toople', but I've seen (at m-w.com) that the first > pronunciation option is 'tuhple', so I wasn't sure. Maybe it's both, but > which is most prevalent? > > Thanks! Now time to go back to reading the chapter on tuples...
I believe both is right. Those who come from a pure mathematics background are more likely to pronounce it _toople_. Those who have encountered it in the wild are more likely to pronounce it _tuhple_. I had enough of an understanding of mathematics to recognize where it came from when I encountered it in Python, but I pronounce it the latter way. Even in mathematics, a tuple, or formally an n-tuple, makes more sense to me pronounced the latter if you list out the various pronounciations for large n, seems me the _uhs_ outweigh the _oos_. (There's quadruple on one side, but then quintuple, sextuple, septuple, heptuple, octuple, etc., etc., etc.) -- Erik Max Francis && [EMAIL PROTECTED] && http://www.alcyone.com/max/ San Jose, CA, USA && 37 20 N 121 53 W && AIM erikmaxfrancis We are victims of our circumstance. -- Sade Adu -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
