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Is the K in his name actually not silent? Huh. I've been calling him "Nooth" for ages. That's going to be hard to unlearn.
by mabbo 9y ago
Is the K in his name actually not silent? Huh. I've been calling him "Nooth" for ages. That's going to be hard to unlearn.
- tjr 9y agohttp://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/faq.html http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/faq.html How do you pronounce your last name? Ka-NOOTH.
- nocman 9y agoDon't feel too bad. I never even thought about it for a long time after being introduced to his work, and I had made the same mistake. I believe at some point I heard someone pronounce it correctly in a video lecture, and I thought the same thing "surely that can't be the correct pronunciation". Alas I did some searching and found the FAQ on his Stanford page and was proven wrong. :D