John Salerno wrote: > Erik Max Francis wrote: > > >>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.) > > > That's kind of the ironic thing. When I first saw the word, I thought > maybe it was a Python-specific term (even something from a Monty Python > skit, even!). My default pronunciation actually was 'toople', but then I > looked it up to be sure and saw that it comes from words like quadruple, > quintuple, etc. Well, even then, I was pronouncing those words in my > head as 'quintoople', 'sextoople', etc., so that didn't really clarify > it for me! But I think 'quintuple' is probably the more popular choice, > which makes 'tuple' sound more correct, so to speak. > > I still have a warm spot for 'toople', though, since that's what I > called it first, but somehow 'tuple' seems less silly (and less like > tupping!) :)
No, no, no. The correct pronunciation is "tyoople" (or, if you're being lazy, "choople"). Anything else is wrong, but we English are usually prepared to forgive foreigners their ignorance :-) [If I pronounced as badly as I type nobody would ever know what I was saying]. not-that-we're-arrogant-or-anything-ly y'rs - steve -- Steve Holden +44 150 684 7255 +1 800 494 3119 Holden Web LLC www.holdenweb.com PyCon TX 2006 www.python.org/pycon/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
