apathy Posted June 23, 2004 Share Posted June 23, 2004 I've heard poor Luis de Broglie's name pronounced more ways than I care to think of. Does anyone know the correct pronunciation? I have always thought that the g is pretty much silent, and the lie part has a "yeh" sound to it. As in : " de Broh-yeh " Also, when I see "Euler" I want to say "you-ler", but I've heard someone say "oiler" before, is this right? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
schlieffen Posted June 23, 2004 Share Posted June 23, 2004 I've always heard it pronounced de broig-lee (g as in go), and I'm pretty sure its you-ler Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tesseract Posted June 23, 2004 Share Posted June 23, 2004 I've heard poor Luis de Broglie's name pronounced more ways than I care to think of. Does anyone know the correct pronunciation? I have always thought that the g is pretty much silent' date=' and the lie part has a "yeh" sound to it. As in : " de Broh-yeh " Also, when I see "Euler" I want to say "you-ler", but I've heard someone say "oiler" before, is this right?[/quote'] I think "Euler", is as you said it oiler, look at the pronounciation key on this site:http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=euler and Broglie is Brog-lee:http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=%20Broglie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
apathy Posted June 24, 2004 Author Share Posted June 24, 2004 cool, thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
qazibasit Posted June 26, 2004 Share Posted June 26, 2004 i think i do agree with schlieffen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Posted June 26, 2004 Share Posted June 26, 2004 I've always pronounced it de brouille (if that makes any sense, I'm no good with phonetics). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deyesed Posted January 22, 2015 Share Posted January 22, 2015 You can pronounce it however you want. If you want to respect the French origin, it's "de broy", like "boy", and a very short "uh" as the vowel of the "de". https://www.princeton.edu/~achaney/tmve/wiki100k/docs/Louis_de_Broglie.html If you click the hyperlinked IPA in that article, it goes to the wikipedia page for IPA. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Cuthber Posted January 22, 2015 Share Posted January 22, 2015 (edited) You can pronounce it how you want, but... Since he was French it's fair to assume that he would have pronounced it as something like "D Broy". So, unless you want to claim that he got his own name wrong, the right pronunciation is something like that. In much the same way, unless you wish to claim that, while a great mathematician, Euler was too dumb to say his own name correctly, it's pronounced like "oiler". (the very short uh sound in de is called a schwa.) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schwa Edited January 22, 2015 by John Cuthber Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Manticore Posted March 9, 2017 Share Posted March 9, 2017 Can't remember where this came from. "Niklaus Wirth has lamented that, whereas Europeans pronounce his name correctly(Ni-klows Virt), Americans invariably mangle it into (Nick-les Worth). Whichis to say that Europeans call him by name, but Americans call him by value." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DrKrettin Posted March 9, 2017 Share Posted March 9, 2017 Which reminds me of the silly puzzle - if the answer is "9 W" what is the question? . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . Herr Wagner - do you spell that with a V ? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Function Posted March 9, 2017 Share Posted March 9, 2017 If it's French, wouldn't it be pronounced as "de Broy-lee"? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StringJunky Posted March 9, 2017 Share Posted March 9, 2017 You can pronounce it how you want, but... Since he was French it's fair to assume that he would have pronounced it as something like "D Broy". So, unless you want to claim that he got his own name wrong, the right pronunciation is something like that. In much the same way, unless you wish to claim that, while a great mathematician, Euler was too dumb to say his own name correctly, it's pronounced like "oiler". (the very short uh sound in de is called a schwa.) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schwa According to Evo, one of the scientists on Physics Forums, whose French, says the most accurate, probably, is as you have put it it but with a slightly longer 'eee' emphasis on the end. As in Da-broyEEE (accented emphasis on the end) Note, not Da-broy-yee. It apparently is Italian in origin or derived from it. Given it's Italian origin, here's two versions. One French and an Italian. The French one is "Da-broy" and the Italian is "Da-broy-yer". https://forvo.com/word/de_broglie/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Strange Posted March 9, 2017 Share Posted March 9, 2017 (edited) The Italian pronunciation of "gli" (a palatal lateral approximant: /ʎ/ ) is not like anything in English, but is close to the "ll" in the middle of "million" (as opposed to the double L in villa, for example). Edited March 9, 2017 by Strange Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StringJunky Posted March 9, 2017 Share Posted March 9, 2017 (edited) The Italian pronunciation of "gli" (a palatal lateral approximant: /ʎ/ ) is not like anything in English, but is close to the "ll" in the middle of "million" (as opposed to the double L in villa, for example). Do you know Italian? Do you mean like this Google translation? Click the speaker icon. https://translate.google.com/#auto/en/broglie Edited March 9, 2017 by StringJunky Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Strange Posted March 10, 2017 Share Posted March 10, 2017 Do you know Italian? Do you mean like this Google translation? Click the speaker icon. https://translate.google.com/#auto/en/broglie Yes. And that sounds like an accurate reproduction (I had to change the language from auto to Italian). Is that synthesised? It seems very good (I have never tried it before and just checked it with a longer phrase). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StringJunky Posted March 10, 2017 Share Posted March 10, 2017 Yes. And that sounds like an accurate reproduction (I had to change the language from auto to Italian). Is that synthesised? It seems very good (I have never tried it before and just checked it with a longer phrase). I don't know. I'm impressed as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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