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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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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



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