how do you pronounce 'tuple'?
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From: Dave Hansen on 13 Feb 2006 17:51 On Mon, 13 Feb 2006 16:46:26 -0500 in comp.lang.python, Steve Holden <steve(a)holdenweb.com> wrote: >Dave Hansen wrote: >> On Sun, 12 Feb 2006 23:30:25 -0500 in comp.lang.python, Steve Holden >> <steve(a)holdenweb.com> 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.
From: Delaney, Timothy (Tim) on 13 Feb 2006 18:02 Grant Edwards wrote: >> 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. And of course, neither are a patch on the Fish-Slapping Dance. Tim Delaney
From: Peter Maas on 13 Feb 2006 18:19 Peter Maas schrieb: > But tuples mean threefold, twofold etc. and the Latin equivalents > are triplex duplex simples. triplex duplex simplex Peter Maas, Aachen
From: Steve Horsley on 13 Feb 2006 18:55 Paddy wrote: > 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. :-) > Which only goes to prove that it really should be two-pull.
From: Peter Hansen on 13 Feb 2006 20:04
Roy Smith wrote: > Peter Maas <peter.maas(a)somewhere.com> wrote: > >>Latin n-tuple >>--------------------------- >>... ... >>triplex triple >>duplex duple >>simplex simple > > > Would a 9-tuple be a nipple? Perhaps, but if you're a dairy farmer, four nipples would definitely be a "two-pull" again... |