On Mon, 13 Feb 2006 16:46:26 -0500 in comp.lang.python, Steve Holden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Dave Hansen wrote: >> On Sun, 12 Feb 2006 23:30:25 -0500 in comp.lang.python, Steve Holden >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] >> >>>"Tyoople", "toople" or "tupple" depending on who you are, where you grew >>>up and who you are speaking to. As with so many Usenet questions, >>>there's no right answer, only 314 wrong ones :-) >> >> >> FWIW, I've often heard the latter two, but never the first one. >> "Tuple" by itself tends to be "toople," but as a suffix tends to be >> "tupple." >> >No, but then you probably listen to the noos, not the nyoos, on the TV >or radio. That's a particularly British pronunciation. I have heard that pronunciation of "news," and not just from the British. Back in the mid-1980's I listened to a radio station with a DJ who, in an attempt at humor, would prefix his news segments with a nasal "And now, the nYoos!" with the first part of the Y heavily stressed and about an octave higher in pitch than either end of the word. He wasn't trying to sound British, just mock-enthusiastic. [...] >> On NPR ([American] National Public Radio), there's a weekly music >> program called "American Routes" pronounced such to conjure the >> alternate "American Roots." >> >Never caught that. Must go get some batteries for my radio. If you're interested, see http://www.americanroutes.org/ Their station list includes some who broadcast over the web. Regards, -=Dave -- Change is inevitable, progress is not. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
