Re: Pronounce Galois

From: Robert Israel (israel_at_math.ubc.ca)
Date: 10/28/04 

Date: 28 Oct 2004 07:24:14 GMT

In article <p651o0hejiflctp0rf5vq62u4k95tf0c1i@4ax.com>,
Thomas Nordhaus <thnord2002@yahoo.de> wrote:

>>>Euler

>>"OIL-er"

>That's right, although the final r isn't pronounced much at all. Don't
>pronounce it the Texan way.

OK, I'll try to pronounce a German r in Euler if you'll use Western
Canadian r's in pronouncing my name.

Robert Israel israel@math.ubc.ca
Department of Mathematics http://www.math.ubc.ca/~israel
University of British Columbia Vancouver, BC, Canada

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