Howdy. Having never heard it spoken, I was wondering about the pronounciation and origin of the word 'tuple'. Is it pronounced: (a) 'tupul', being derived from "two-tuple, three-tuple, multuple"; or (b), 'toople', eg. an innovation of Jimmy J. Tuple. I would hate to distress anyone by referring to the mysterious 'toople'/'tupul' of which they know nought. Matt Lye