BURNING EARTHSHAKING Tuple Question

[Stephen Horne]

On 23 Jul 2001 16:36:33 GMT, Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk
<qrczak at knm.org.pl> wrote:

>Sun, 22 Jul 2001 16:54:08 +0500, Tom Bryan <tbryan at python.net> pisze:
>
>> In both my undergraduate and graduate studies in mathematics in the U.S., 
>> I only remember hearing tuple pronounced so that it rhymes with goop.  If 
>> anyone pronounced it to rhyme with couple, it was rare enough that I don't 
>> remember it.  But we also said "pie" for pi and "fee" for phi.
>
>Because you have ambiguous orthography :-)
>
>At least in Polish tupla is unambiguously pronounced tooplah
>(or translated to krotka), and we say pee and fee. And pit-on.

So instead of two slightly different pronunciations, you have two
completely different words ;-)