Not by Euler!
In a message dated 10/12/2015 1:15:59 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
jejunejesuit.geary2@xxxxxxxxx writes:
"[A]ccording to my phonical rendering of the initial sound of the
word"European" ["yoo"] is not a vowel sound in English even though it starts
with 2
(count them) vowels."
Indeed, the European mathematician (and who could thus count) Euler used to
say, "an Euler diagram", only to have his teacher correcting that into "an
Euler diagramme".
Cheers,
Speranza
References:
Young, Chasing an ancient Greek: discursive reminiscences of an European
journey*.
* A brilliant testimony to Young's multilingual skills and what he called “
Good Europeanism”. The essay demonstrates his appreciation of
sixteenth­century Scottish humanism and its "Good Europeanism", when he
discusses
Henry Scrymger, a Dundonian and Hellenist, whom Young places within a larger
context of Scottish Renaissance humanists who studied and held
professorial posts at Continental European universities.
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