how do you pronounce 'tuple'?
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From: John Salerno on 13 Feb 2006 11:12 Steve Holden wrote: > 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 ::eyes the Brits suspiciously:: And I thought there were only choo ways to pronounce it...turns out there are free.
From: Grant Edwards on 13 Feb 2006 11:44 On 2006-02-13, John Salerno <johnjsal(a)NOSPAMgmail.com> wrote: > Grant Edwards wrote: >> On 2006-02-13, John Salerno <johnjsal(a)NOSPAMgmail.com> wrote: >>> Markus Wankus wrote: >>> >>>> I'm not sure, but I think it is pronounced "m?nage ? trois". >>> LOL. You guys are hilarious. I think I made the right decision >>> to start learning Python! :) >> >> Of course! What did you expect from devotees of a language >> named after one of the greatest comedy shows in TV history? > > Well, I hope this doesn't make me lose credibility, but I've > actually never seen the show! I saw Holy Grail several years > ago, though. But I'm very curious about this whole cheese shop > skit, so when I get home tonight I'm going to download it. :) IMO, it's not as good as the dead-parrot skit, but it's still a classic. -- Grant Edwards grante Yow! Yow! Now we can at become alcoholics! visi.com
From: John Salerno on 13 Feb 2006 12:05 Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2006-02-13, John Salerno <johnjsal(a)NOSPAMgmail.com> wrote: >> Grant Edwards wrote: >>> On 2006-02-13, John Salerno <johnjsal(a)NOSPAMgmail.com> wrote: >>>> Markus Wankus wrote: >>>> >>>>> I'm not sure, but I think it is pronounced "m?nage ? trois". >>>> LOL. You guys are hilarious. I think I made the right decision >>>> to start learning Python! :) >>> Of course! What did you expect from devotees of a language >>> named after one of the greatest comedy shows in TV history? >> Well, I hope this doesn't make me lose credibility, but I've >> actually never seen the show! I saw Holy Grail several years >> ago, though. But I'm very curious about this whole cheese shop >> skit, so when I get home tonight I'm going to download it. :) > > IMO, it's not as good as the dead-parrot skit, but it's still a > classic. > Ah, now that one I have seen, and it is great! There's an episode of SNL where they sort of randomly show that skit, which is a little bizarre in itself. :)
From: Sergei Organov on 13 Feb 2006 12:24 John Salerno <johnjsal(a)NOSPAMgmail.com> writes: > 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? I just checked my English dictionary, and for, say, "quintuple", it suggests ['kwintjupl] pronunciation. I didn't check it before, but I tend to pronounce tuple as [tjupl] indeed (in fact Russians would say it's closer to [chjupl]). -- Sergei.
From: Terry Hancock on 13 Feb 2006 16:10
On Sun, 12 Feb 2006 22:52:30 -0800 Erik Max Francis <max(a)alcyone.com> 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.) I doubt that helps much: I pronounce all of those words (when I use them, which is not too often) as "-toopel". The only tuple I pronounce with the "-uh-" is "couple", and I usually call that a "two-tuple" when dealing with Python. I suspect that even those who would pronounce 'quintuple' "kwintuhpel" would say 'quintuplicate' as "kwinTOOPlikuht". (that's the noun, not the verb, which is "kwintoopliKATE"). So what's a 1-element tuple, anyway? A "mople"? "monople"? It does seem like this lopsided pythonic creature (1,) ought to have a name to reflect its ugly, newbie-unfriendly nature. Are we having fun yet? ;-) Cheers, Terry -- Terry Hancock (hancock(a)AnansiSpaceworks.com) Anansi Spaceworks http://www.AnansiSpaceworks.com |