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RE: Auger
A final late note on this,
If you come in Quebec, the "French Speaking " Canadian province, you will
find a truckload of Auger and they are pronouncing their name: O-J.
Funny trend anyway but Radsafers are curious about Culture (with a capital
C), that is a plus...
Now, how would you pronounce "Tomato" ? Like in "Irradiated Tomato" ?
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It seems that Pierre Auger was borne in Paris in 1899. Look for Auger in
http://perso.wanadoo.fr/michel.hubin/celebres/chap_cel5.htm
In any case, in Alsace or other places, Auger is pronounced in the same way,
"OH zhay!" all over France.
Philippe Duport
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From: owner-radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu
[mailto:owner-radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu] On Behalf Of Cary Renquist
Sent: Tuesday, September 09, 2003 1:33 PM
To: radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu; michael.g.stabin@vanderbilt.edu
Subject: Re: Auger
I have always used the O.J. (with a soft "J").
Here is the Mirriam Webster version -- they have an audio file of the
pronunciation:
http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?book=Dictionary&va=auger+effect
You could always just call them Meitner electrons...
Cary
>>> "Stabin, Michael" <michael.g.stabin@vanderbilt.edu> 09/04/2003
08:53:31 >>>
Regarding the pronunciation of "Auger", I have always believed what I
found on this web site (http://zhurnal.net/ww/zw?PhysicsWords):
"Don't say AW-gher like the drill, but rather "O. J." or even "OH
zhay!"
with a French twinkle in your eyes."
I taught this recently at a short course, but was challenged by one of
the students that Auger was actually raised in a German speaking
province in France, and that the pronunciation might be more like
"OW-gher". Not hugely important, I know, but now I'm curious. Anyone
have any way of verifying or refuting this claim?
Mike
Michael G. Stabin, PhD, CHP
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Vanderbilt University
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