I've also heard "quintuple" pronounced "quin-TUH-ple" when used as a verb and "quin-TOO-ple" when used as a noun or adjective, so there's a part-of-speech distinction as well...
Being mostly self taught I had a few of these. First couple of months working with other developers one would come up every week or so. Luckily not very embarrassing. The new juniors have a few too!
Yes, that’s most common in parts of the United States I’ve frequented. Pronunciation guidance by analogy is hard without taking in to account the region of the reader.
But then the pronunciation of quadruple can go either way. Although the "oo" is listed first, so is probably more common, I guess any of them would be considered OK:
The dictionaries seem to attribute the words to Latin, while the -oo sound seems to come from Greek. The root word of both coming from a word for fold, "-plus" in Latin and "-plos" or "-ploos" in Greek.
Greek and Latin have been mixed up enough over the years that it should be acceptable to use either pronunciation regardless of the true origin of the word.
Interesting, I went through the exact opposite. I think I like the "tuh" pronunciation better because "too" sounds too much like "two". That can confuse people since tupples could be any size.
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tupple → /tʌp(ə)l/
ruble, super, ruby, Sumer (as in Sumerian)
rubble, supper, rubber, summer
Triple has a short "i" sound.
Every-other "-ple" sounds like "tuh-ple"
> -tuple 1863, word-forming element abstracted from quintuple, etc.
(from https://www.etymonline.com/word/-tuple)
A dictionary agrees:
> Origin and Etymology of -tuple quintuple, sextuple
(from https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/-tuple)
But then the pronunciation of quadruple can go either way. Although the "oo" is listed first, so is probably more common, I guess any of them would be considered OK:
> \ kwin-ˈtü-pəl , -ˈtyü- , -ˈtə- ; ˈkwin-tə- \
(from https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/quintuple)
Greek and Latin have been mixed up enough over the years that it should be acceptable to use either pronunciation regardless of the true origin of the word.
As in: That group of 5 was a real ‘tuple.
When I got a job doing Python a month in, my co-worker pronounced it "too-ple" and I quickly adopted that pronunciation.
But TIL that "too-ple" is more common [98 pts vs 43 pts], apparently.
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Blew my mind to discover that “arity” is a real word.
Anyway, didn't there use to be a web app that would search youtube for words and play the part of videos where that word was said?