Too-pul or not too-pul

[Scott, M Clay]

Peter Hansen wrote:
>Scott Long wrote:
>> 
>> Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk wrote:
>> 
>> >> What is the proper pronunciation for "Tuple"?
>> 
>> > This question has been asked here 6 weeks ago. It seems that there
>> > is no simple answer, various people pronounce "tuple" differently.
>> >
>> 
>> Quite true. Consider quadruple (quad-roo-pul) and quintuple
(quin-tuh-pul).
>> I say that as long as this difference exists, no one has any reason to
>> argue about "tuple".
>
>Heh heh!  Considering that I've always pronounced both quadruple and
>quintuple with "oo" not "uh", I'd have to agree with the conclusion
>you reach, if not the reason for it. :-)
>
>(Note on dictionary.com the three ways of pronouncing quadruple
>and the four for quintuple.  Hmmm... triple only has one 
>pronunciation, so there goes my nascent theory about there
>being N-1 ways to pronounce these words. Dang. ;-)
>

"I say to-may-to, You say to-mah-to;
I say po-tay-to, You say po-tah-to;

I say too-pul, You say tuh-pul....

Let's call the whole thing off."

 :^)

Thanks for all the feedback.  I guess I'll settle on too-pul.

Clay

>>>def say_tuple():
...    print "Too-pul"

>>>say_tuple()
Too-pul