[Tutor] How is "tuple" pronounced?

[Eric Brunson]

earlylight publishing wrote:
> Is it tuh-ple (rhymes with supple)
>  
> or is it two-ple (rhymes with nothing that I can think of)?

As a mathematician, I've always heard it pronounced "toople", even 
though when you put a prefix on it (quintuple, sextuple, octuple) it 
becomes "tuhple".  We're mathematicians, not linguists.  :-)

Guido says, "toople".  *shrug*


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