BURNING EARTHSHAKING Tuple Question

[Erik Max Francis]

kevin parks wrote:

> By the way is tuple pronounced tOOple (god i hope it is), or is it
> pronounced
> like the word "couple". Tuple like "couple" would be too high brow.

I've always heard it pronounced to rhyme with _couple_, but a
mathematician friend of mine insisted that it was pronounced the other
way.  When I checked a dictionary it said both were legal.

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