De Bruijn graphs have become a popular of late for solving genome assembly problems. However, I'm not sure if I've ever heard "de Bruijn" pronounced correctly--or even pronounced at all (I'm usually reading about it). As opposed to made-up programs or format names, de Bruijn is someone's actual name from an actual culture (Dutch perhaps?), so there should be a "correct" pronunciation, am I correct?
Here are the possibilities I've considered.
- de BRAIN
- de BRINE
- de BROIN
- de BROON
Is any of these correct, or is my Dutch that bad? :)
When I learned Dutch, I was told to "shape your mouth as if to say the word onion, but then say ow." It helped :-)
No offense taken! I'll give it my best shot. I did live met die Afrikaners for two years (Cape Town and East London), so I did pick up a few points of pronunciation. But the ui was always hard for me to remember, even when I lived there.