13 May
2016
13 May
'16
9:29 p.m.
When I was a kid, I thought Euler was pronounced "you-ler". When I first heard someone speak his name as "oiler", I was horrified. Tom Keith F. Lynch writes:
... or Lie theory ("A big lie can be easier to sell than a littler", said Hitler).
Unfortunately, it's pronounced "lee." (This was perhaps the most obscure factoid that I found useful during my short career as an audio proofreader, in which I made sure transcripts agreed with the audio they were intended to be the transcript of. A good technical vocabulary was a plus. Too bad they were looking for speed, not accuracy. They're out of business now, mostly for that reason.)