You’re definitely not alone. My first teacher who pronounced “oiler” correctly did so a lot and every time in my head I had to deliberately pin the sound to Euler because I had heard the name mispronounced consistently for years.
Eu is an old and common long diphthong prefixing Greek roots to mean “good-{whatever}” with lots of cognates in other languages pronounced with a long u sound. That Euler should be the rare exception is fitting, but most who read the name first will mispronounce it as a result.
euler is said like oiler in case you are a numpty like me and didn’t know.
You’re definitely not alone. My first teacher who pronounced “oiler” correctly did so a lot and every time in my head I had to deliberately pin the sound to Euler because I had heard the name mispronounced consistently for years.
Eu is an old and common long diphthong prefixing Greek roots to mean “good-{whatever}” with lots of cognates in other languages pronounced with a long u sound. That Euler should be the rare exception is fitting, but most who read the name first will mispronounce it as a result.
It means you learned it from reading and that’s fine!
No judgent against those who don’t know pronunciations yet. It’s fine. Except for not knowing how to say detritus. That’s garbage.
And then to make things more confusing there’s Euclid :3
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