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The girl demoing VS 2017 pronounces tuple as 'TWO-pull'. That can't be right, is it?

• purple-dragon 10y ago
  Both 'TWO-pull' and 'TUH-pull' are acceptable.
  • achr2 10y ago
    huh, interesting. Thanks.
    • purple-dragon 10y ago
      Slightly uninteresting: while I now pronounce it as 'TUH-pull', I pronounced it as "TWO-pull" in my younger years because of my background in music, where we use the term 'duple', which people usually pronounce as rhyming with the latter.
• idreyn 10y ago
  YMMV, but I've heard both TWO-pull and TUP-pull in academic and professional contexts. From a quick google search it looks like both pronunciations are generall accepted. I prefer TWO-pull myself! [1] http://english.stackexchange.com/questions/12980/how-to-pronounce-tuple http://english.stackexchange.com/questions/12980/how-to-pron... [2] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12737515/how-do-you-pronounce-tuple http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12737515/how-do-you-prono...
  • achr2 10y ago
    interesting - do you pronounce qiuntuple, octuple, etc. the same way?
    • tomcam 10y ago
      Yes, but according to the OED there is an exception. "Octuple" is correct pronounced "ock TOOP lay". I kid.