how do you pronounce 'tuple'?

Sergei Organov osv at javad.com
Mon Feb 13 12:24:25 EST 2006


John Salerno <johnjsal at NOSPAMgmail.com> writes:

> Yes, silly question, but it keeps me up at night.  :)
>
> I know it comes from the suffix -tuple, which makes me think it's 
> pronounced as 'toople', but I've seen (at m-w.com) that the first 
> pronunciation option is 'tuhple', so I wasn't sure. Maybe it's both, but 
> which is most prevalent?

I just checked my English dictionary, and for, say, "quintuple", it
suggests ['kwintjupl] pronunciation. I didn't check it before, but I
tend to pronounce tuple as [tjupl] indeed (in fact Russians would say it's
closer to [chjupl]).

-- Sergei.




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