how do you pronounce 'tuple'?

[Peter Maas]

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