how do you pronounce 'tuple'?

[Steve Holden]

John Salerno wrote:
> Erik Max Francis wrote:
> 
> 
>>Even in mathematics, a tuple, or formally an n-tuple, makes more sense 
>>to me pronounced the latter if you list out the various pronounciations 
>>for large n, seems me the _uhs_ outweigh the _oos_.  (There's quadruple 
>>on one side, but then quintuple, sextuple, septuple, heptuple, octuple, 
>>etc., etc., etc.)
> 
> 
> That's kind of the ironic thing. When I first saw the word, I thought 
> maybe it was a Python-specific term (even something from a Monty Python 
> skit, even!). My default pronunciation actually was 'toople', but then I 
> looked it up to be sure and saw that it comes from words like quadruple, 
> quintuple, etc. Well, even then, I was pronouncing those words in my 
> head as 'quintoople', 'sextoople', etc., so that didn't really clarify 
> it for me! But I think 'quintuple' is probably the more popular choice, 
> which makes 'tuple' sound more correct, so to speak.
> 
> I still have a warm spot for 'toople', though, since that's what I 
> called it first, but somehow 'tuple' seems less silly (and less like 
> tupping!)  :)

No, no, no. The correct pronunciation is "tyoople" (or, if you're being 
lazy, "choople"). Anything else is wrong, but we English are usually 
prepared to forgive foreigners their ignorance :-)

[If I pronounced as badly as I type nobody would ever know what I was 
saying].

not-that-we're-arrogant-or-anything-ly y'rs  - steve
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