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yoolur

oiler

Oiler or Yoolur, depends.

Oiler.

Everyone above the age of seventeen knows it's "OIL-er."
Everyone fucking knows this. Just because you only hang out with idiots in real life doesn't mean that everyone is an idiot.

oyclid

I know it's supposed to be Oiler but I always say you-ler in my head.

ˈɔʏlɐ

I wonder that too sometimes. Since I'm German and Euler was German and pronounciation hasn't changed that much since he lived, I figure he was pronounced "Oilah". But how do English speaking folk deal with the "eu"?

Also, how do you English speaking people pronounce "Möbius"? I demand to know.

>>2187454
Then you're not above the age of fifteen. Or you're not working in a respectable field.
Any real scientist encounters Euler at least a half dozen times per month. By the end of a year, you'd literally be unable to say anything besides "oiler."

>>2187465
moh-bee-us

>>2187469

>>2187465
Swefag here. They tend to pronounce ö as o in my experience.

But in principle, I wouldn't really hold it against anyone if they pronounced some names "wrong". Names are legitimately said differently in different languages. For example, I don't know anyone who puts a greek pronounciation on "Euclid". And I would certainly pronounce his name differently if speaking english (you-clid) and swedish (eh-uh-clid).

I say Oiler, not the correct Oilah. But I would probably say Oilah if speaking german.

>>2187465
Britfag, I say
Muh-bee-us
like a

Oiler.

Greetings,
a Germanfag.

>>2187516
West coast canadian here, I would pronounce it moe-bee-us

your accent is showing, britfag

>>2187522
I am a Northerner, so we do pronounce stuff quite differently to most, I've studied a little German though so I know that ö is more of an uh sound, than an o.

>>2187439
never heard of euler
anyways i would pronounce you ler

Can-duhl-j

"Oy-lur" - I always have to explain this to people but no one gets it. He's German, so it's pronounced that way.

>>2187465
He was Swiss nevertheless, and yup it's pronounced oil-er

eler

u is silent

Good to see most people picking 'oil-er'.

Anyway, continuing this line of questioning, how do you pronounce the "-ae" at the end of animal family names?

Ex. "Canidae"

I did this one wrong for years until I got to college.

>>2187585
Can-ih-day.

>>2187585
just like the german "ä"

>>2187439
I know that its "oiler" but I prefer "ooler" because it doesn't sound stupid.

eel er

you-ler

(rhymes with jew fur)

>>2187585
can-idd-die
(rymes with ran- did-cry)

>>2187587
That's how I used to pronounce it.

It's actually "Can-id-eye".

Seriously, check the pronunciation guide on wikipedia (and don't watch the dog food commercials where they pronounce it wrong).

>>2187608
Yup.
Good call.

>>2187585

Can-ee-dah-eh

owler

to preserve the meaning of his name.

How would you pronounce Nobel, as in the Nobel prize?

yoular isnt it?

>>2187651
I always thought it was No-bell.
I never considered it might be something else.

What's the correct pronunciation?

>>2187439
oiler

english is one fucked up language

>No-bell

quite close, some people emphasize on the second syllable

well I originally thought it was like 'youler'
but this makes mathematicians cringe.

It is supposed to be pronounced like "oiler".

>>2187663
No-bell is correct (I would know, I'm Norwegian), but the o is a clean o, not the bastardized o you so often find in the English language.

After having thought about it for about two minutes, I still can't come up with any examples. I must conclude that the correct pronunciation of the letter o does not exist in the English language.

Sidenote: English is the worst language I've ever come across, and I've looked into a metric fuckton of languages. Don't feel bad, it's just the way things are.

>>2187791
What exactly is wrong with it?
You just don't like the way we pronounce some stuff?

>>2187791
so naw-bell?

>>2187510

It's Euklides in Swedish.

You - lur

How to pronounce Nobel: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Nobel

Listen to the sound file. Granted, the voice is some annoying Stockholmish accent, but he's got it right. The point is that it's not the "Noble prize" like I hear to many english speakers say it.

Then again, if Euclid is you-clid then maybe the Noble prize is correct...

>>2187889

Better leave it at No-bell.

The French 'eau' (water) comes close to what was called a "clean o", a phonem that simply doesn't exist in the English language.

>>2187465
I pronounce it "Oyler" and "Merr-be-us" (English native).

>Canidae

Can-i-dai, ai as in aisle. This is how the dipthong ae is pronounced in Latin anyway.

How do you pronounce Caesar?

The number one also equals

see

http://iphonescan.com/?p=7466

for more information.

>>2188118
With an S sound, now gtfo.