Learning Python (or Haskell) makes you a worse programmer

Gregory Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Wed Mar 30 17:36:23 EDT 2016


Tim Golden wrote:

> (I don't know how other English-speaking groups say the word, but in
> England the first syllable is stressed and the second is the
> conventional short "uh" sound).

I can attest that New Zealand follows the UK on this. I was
surprised when I first heard an American pronounce it too.

The curious can hear the difference on these pages:

British:  http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/python
American: http://www.dictionary.com/browse/python?s=t

-- 
Greg



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