John Salerno wrote:
> I know it comes from the suffix -tuple, which makes me think it's
> pronounced as 'toople', but I've seen (at m-w.com) that the first
> pronunciation option is 'tuhple'

I went to university in Pittsburgh and work in Washington, DC.  I've
only ever heard it as toople.

If I heard someone say tuhple, I'd probably thing of Iago's words to
Desdemona's father along the lines of "that ram is tupping your ewe".
But I'm easily amused by alternate pronunciations.

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