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I said “Freznul” for Fresnel in front of a lighting designer. He said “ah! So you’ve been reading!” I remember that now when someone pronounces something as it’s spelled. They’ve likely been studying by actually reading something, and there’s nothing wrong with that.
"Euler" instead of "Oiler"
??? Not sure how an American would pronounce "oiler" but if it's "oil" as in "sunflower oil" then that's a pretty good emulation of the original German pronounciation of "Euler"... Another anology Euler-Room Boiler-Room Roughly the same. (Minus the B of course)
azure is tough for me.
The worst I heard was calling PHP “pup”. Yes that’s a u.
I also recall in the early 2000's hearing people call .html files "hotmail files".
I don't think there are sounds like 'ö', 'ij', or 'ui' in English. note: 'uy' is the 16th century spelling of current 'ui'.
It seems Americans always screw up German names, like Gödel, Schrödinger. So are Dutch names like Dijkstra, Huygens. I don't think there are sounds like 'ö', 'ij', or 'ui' in English. note: 'uy' is the 16th century spelling of current 'ui'.