how do you pronounce 'tuple'?
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From: Paddy on 13 Feb 2006 15:50 Its tupple surely. The following shows that we are not the first to ponder this: http://www.jot.fm/issues/issue_2003_03/column9 Stick tuple into the Windosw XP speech properties preview box and hit preview-voice, it says tupple not toople. :-) - Paddy.
From: John Salerno on 13 Feb 2006 15:52 Terry Hancock wrote: > 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? ;-) I kind of like 'moople'. :)
From: Dave Hansen on 13 Feb 2006 16:27 On Sun, 12 Feb 2006 23:30:25 -0500 in comp.lang.python, Steve Holden <steve(a)holdenweb.com> wrote: >John Salerno wrote: [...] > >> 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? [...] >"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." > >I teach on both sides of the Atlantic, and have learned to draw a mental >breath before trying to pronounce the word "router". Americans find the >British pronunciation ("rooter") hilarious, despite the fact they tell Probably a cultural reference to "Roto-Rooter," a nationwide plumbing company specializing in cleaning (ostensibly tree and other plant roots, though often more, uh, prozaic materials), from sewer drains. "Call Roto-Rooter, that's the name, and away go troubles down the drain." >me I drive on "Root 66" to get to DC. The Brits are politer, and only >snigger behind my back when I pronounce it as Americans do, to rhyme >with "outer". I've seen "route" pronounced "rout" or "root" depending on the background and mood of the speaker, though in this part of the country ("midwest", though "middle" might be more accurate) the former pronunciation is far more common. Through the sugestive power of television, however, I suspect nearly every American would speak of "root 66" even though the next sentence might reference "rout 12." On NPR ([American] National Public Radio), there's a weekly music program called "American Routes" pronounced such to conjure the alternate "American Roots." Regards, -=Dave -- Change is inevitable, progress is not.
From: Peter Maas on 13 Feb 2006 16:30 John Salerno schrieb: > Terry Hancock wrote: > >> 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? ;-) > > I kind of like 'moople'. :) tuples are of latin origin, so one can derive the tuple words systematically: Latin n-tuple --------------------------- .... ... triplex triple duplex duple simplex simple I wouldn't mind calling (1,) a simple but I'm not a native English speaker so I have no idea wether it sounds ridiculous to English ears. If simple is too simple for you just call it simplum or simplon or simplex. ;) Peter Maas, Aachen
From: Jack Diederich on 13 Feb 2006 16:31
On Mon, Feb 13, 2006 at 08:52:06PM +0000, John Salerno wrote: > Terry Hancock wrote: > > > 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? ;-) > > I kind of like 'moople'. :) I cry unquel. |