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queerlilhayseed@piefed.blahaj.zone 2 months agoWe can call it the Euler Award for Excessive Achievement in Science. Or the Eulies if you’re in the industry. And we make a big deal about it if anyone pronounces is " the yoolies”
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Isn’t eu pronounced oy
queerlilhayseed@piefed.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
Yep, I think the accepted English pronunciation of “Euler” is as a homophone of “oiler”, so the award would be “the oilies”. I never heard the name out loud as a kid so I pronounced it “you’-ler” until well into adulthood, until someone made a big deal about me not pronouncing it correctly. I remember the occasion very clearly 🙃