Origin / Phonology of Tuple class

Matthew Lye mlye@trentu.ca
Thu, 27 Nov 1997 00:43:26 -0400


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