most recent 30 from http://mathoverflow.net 2013-06-19T03:56:55Z http://mathoverflow.net/feeds/question/4381 http://www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.5/rdf http://mathoverflow.net/questions/4381/pronunciation-dijkstra Shake Baby 2009-11-06T14:16:38Z 2009-11-06T14:42:15Z

<p>I know how to pronounce Dijkstra's name correctly (hear it here: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edsger_W._Dijkstra" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edsger_W._Dijkstra</a>).</p> <p>But I'd like to know how people usually say his name. I've heard it in many different ways throughout my career, and since I'm teaching a course on graphs and Dijkstra's algorithm, I don't want to teach the real pronunciation since nobody seems to use it. I want to teach the most common pronunciation (although I shall mention the real one).</p> <p>I appreciate your reply. Thank you.</p>

http://mathoverflow.net/questions/4381/pronunciation-dijkstra/4385#4385 Greg Kuperberg 2009-11-06T14:42:15Z 2009-11-06T14:42:15Z

<p>I've always heard it basically the same way as Wikipedia, except with an American accent. Basically "dike' struh", with the accent on the first syllable as indicated, and struh is the same as in Strunk and strum.</p>