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https://youglish.com/search/tuple/all https://youglish.com/search/tuple/all? Roughly 60 / 40 short u ('tupple') vs long u ('toople').

• umvi 7y ago
  It's like gif (ghif) vs gif (jif)... even among native speakers it will be heavily polarized
  • godelski 7y ago
    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20228480 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20228480
• autoexec 7y ago
  Is the short u 'tupple' wrong despite it's popularity because if so I've been lying to people...
  • Retra 7y ago
    You should use 'tupple' when referring to odd-length tuples, and 'toople' when referring to even-length tuples. That is obviously the only sane compromise.
    • kurtisc 7y ago
      Any ideas for 'trie'?
      • pvg 7y ago
        Yes. Correctly pronounced with a Khoisan click.
  • pvg 7y ago
    It's not. Not even when used as a suffix in 'real' words. https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/quintuple https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/quintuple In thinking about this, I realized I say short quintuple but long standalone tuple. I can probably retcon myself some reason but I don't think there is any.