[ExI] Euler day

BillK pharos at gmail.com
Mon Apr 15 17:12:32 UTC 2013


On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 5:47 PM, spike wrote:
> Unrelated aside: I had intended to give my son the middle name Euler.  At
> the hospital the day before his birth, I decided to try an experiment.  I
> wrote the name on a piece of paper and asked four people at Stanford
> Pediatric how they would pronounce the name.  All four said YOU-ler.  So,
> no.  Damn.  {8-[
>
>

Wikepedia says the nearest English equivalent of the German
pronunciation is "Oiler"

So I doubt if you would prefer that.   :)

BillK



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