From: John Cowan <cowan@ccil.org>
To: Dave Horsfall <dave@horsfall.org>
Cc: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] Regular Expressions
Date: Sun, 9 Aug 2020 21:38:55 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAD2gp_Qae4PNJyKHo6_GXM6B0n+1b7H2ULd1+75J3RBVPcjD5Q@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.21.9999.2008100947330.3620@aneurin.horsfall.org>
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On Sun, Aug 9, 2020 at 7:53 PM Dave Horsfall <dave@horsfall.org> wrote:
Interesting; I was taught it was "Chebychev", which as second ranking
> doesn't even come close to "Chebyshev"...
>
"Chebychev" is downright bizarre. The first "Ch" is as in English
"Chebyshev", the second is as in French "Tchebychev". The other variants
are mostly explicable: for example, in German it's "Tschebyschew".
The final vowel is written "e" but pronounced "o" in Russian, and can come
out either way in transliteration. Likewise, the final "v" is pronounced
"f", and can be written "v" or "ff" in transliteration. Tolstoy was
affected by this too: his first name is usually given as either "Leo"
(which is what it means) or "Lev" nowadays, but in the 19C it was usually
spelled "Lyoff" (one syllable), which is how it's pronounced.
John Cowan http://vrici.lojban.org/~cowan cowan@ccil.org
You are a child of the universe no less than the trees and all other acyclic
graphs; you have a right to be here. --DeXiderata by Sean McGrath
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Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-07-31 22:57 Will Senn
2020-08-01 0:01 ` Bakul Shah
2020-08-01 0:36 ` Rob Pike
2020-08-01 0:53 ` John P. Linderman
2020-08-01 1:31 ` Bakul Shah
2020-08-01 1:39 ` Larry McVoy
2020-08-01 2:33 ` Will Senn
2020-08-01 2:50 ` Rich Morin
2020-08-01 3:01 ` Larry McVoy
2020-08-01 3:07 ` Will Senn
2020-08-01 4:31 ` Earl Baugh
2020-08-01 4:53 ` ron minnich
2020-08-01 5:48 ` Andrew Hume
2020-08-01 13:31 ` Richard Salz
2020-08-01 13:43 ` Andrew Hume
2020-08-02 0:45 ` Christopher Browne
2020-08-09 1:00 ` Dave Horsfall
2020-08-09 1:15 ` Nelson H. F. Beebe
2020-08-09 23:53 ` Dave Horsfall
2020-08-10 1:38 ` John Cowan [this message]
2020-08-01 0:00 Noel Chiappa
2020-08-01 21:12 Doug McIlroy
2020-08-09 23:44 ` Dave Horsfall
2020-08-10 0:50 ` Rob Pike
2020-08-02 4:59 Rudi Blom
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