Re: [TUHS] Regular Expressions

On Sun, Aug 9, 2020 at 7:53 PM Dave Horsfall <dave(a)horsfall.org> wrote: Interesting; I was taught it was "Chebychev", which as second ranking "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(a)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