how do you pronounce 'tuple'?

[Erik Max Francis]

Peter Maas wrote:

> tuples are of latin origin, so one can derive the tuple words
> systematically:
> 
> Latin             n-tuple
> ---------------------------
> ...               ...
> triplex           triple
> duplex            duple
> simplex           simple

Yeah but there's already plenty of existing English usage such that 
3-tuple : triple :: 2-tuple : pair.  (A 2-tuple is an "ordered pair" in 
mathematics.)  If a 2-tuple is a pair, then it would seem to follow that 
a 1-tuple is a single.

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