Timeline for What words are commonly mispronounced by literate people who read them before they heard them?
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| Jan 1, 2014 at 19:46 | comment | added | Jon Purdy | What’s sad about this one is that we abbreviate Boolean as “bool” instead of “boole”. | |
| Feb 21, 2012 at 3:38 | history | edited | tchrist♦ | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Nov 25, 2011 at 21:20 | history | edited | Daniel | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
added 3 characters in body
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| Jun 7, 2011 at 22:06 | comment | added | John Gietzen | Herculean is pronounced hur-kyuh-LEE-uhn, so it follows that boolean should be pronounced boo-LEE-uhn. | |
| Apr 2, 2011 at 0:29 | comment | added | James Eichele | @Kit: If your "-lian" suffix sounds the same as it would in the words "mammalian", or "Mongolian", then I think you were pronouncing it correctly. Herculean is pronounced hur-kyuh-lee-uhn or hur-kyoo-lee-uhn, so Boolean is pronounced BOO-lee-uhn | |
| Mar 27, 2011 at 9:04 | comment | added | Kit |
I used to say "boolian" :P
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| Feb 5, 2011 at 19:12 | comment | added | user774 | This is easy to remember when you realise that it's named after George Boole. So it's Boolean as in Herculean. | |
| Aug 23, 2010 at 1:48 | history | answered | Joe Phillips | CC BY-SA 2.5 |