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Re: Pronouncing "Chebyshev"
Posted:
Oct 9, 2002 12:38 PM
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"Iain Davidson" <Sttscitrans@tesco.net> wrote in message
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> Richard Tobin <richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk> wrote in message
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> > In article <3da357ab.11846910@news.earthlink.net>,
> > James the Lurker <jps06111@operamail.com> wrote:
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> > >My statistics teacher and I are at odds as how to "Chebyshev" is
> > >pronounced. She says "Cheh bee' chev". I say "Cheh' bih shov".
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> > Do you want to know how Russians pronounce that name, or how the
> > mathematician's name is usually pronounced by English speakers?
> > You might be right for the former, but your teacher is closer for
> > the latter.
> >
> > Compare the question with "how is Paris pronounced?".
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> Or even "How do you pronounce Munich"
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I pronounce it.
"CHUB-uh- shev-and-BITE-me"
Same with Nabokov.
RJ P
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