John Salerno <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
