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by gus_massa 444 days ago
[Hi from Argentina!] For 'Euler", I keep switching randomly betwen

Eh-oo-leh-r that is how it should be read if it were an Spanish word.

Oh-ee-leh-r that is the proper German pronunciation

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And here I felt he added lubrication to machinery = Oiler and my friend Eugene who's mother called him Oygen does the same. Being from the UK, came to Canada in 1948, I spoke colloquial English in school, but correct London Cockney slang at home to family - on phone calls to friends, if I responded to family mid dialog, my friends would always ask who was that when my slang was over heard.