Every year? While there are plenty of posts about "aluminum" and the letter "Z", I did a forum search and didn't see anyone else with this particular bit of info about Van Valkenburg quote about Bode's name.
Happens every single time I mention it in a video. People trot out Wikipedia like it's the golden tablets.
While language can evolve, and groups of people are free to refer to things in whatever way they want, sometimes there's one right answer. If something is named in honor of a real live dude, and that dude pronounced his name a certain way, then that's what it is.
That's what it is
to him, everyone else is free to pronounce it however they like. When a persons name becomes more than just their name by virtue of it becoming an
industry term that everyone learns in engineering school, then you can't stop it evolving over time. We are talking the 1930's here, more than 4 generations!
[/i]Perhaps you support the C-16 bill in Canada where people will be
forced by rule of law to address people with the correct pronoun?
I will continue to pronounce it the way I was taught and the way it's said by almost everyone in the industry in Australia and many other countries. I don't expect the Yanks to change to "boh-dah", just as no one should expect Australians and others to change from "Bowed"
And I'm totally committed to saying "boh-dah" now
Great, your choice, more power to you, just don't expect others to.
Rout vs root anyone?
Vi-Ah vs Vee-ah?