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Smokey:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hendrik_Wade_Bode
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hendrik_Wade_Bode#cite_note-Van_Valkenburg-1

"Van Valkenburg, M. E. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, "In memoriam: Hendrik W. Bode (1905-1982)", IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, Vol. AC-29, No 3., March 1984, pp. 193–194. Quote: "Something should be said about his name. To his colleagues at Bell Laboratories and the generations of engineers that have followed, the pronunciation is boh-dee. The Bode family preferred that the original Dutch be used as boh-dah."

It doesn't rhyme with "Mode" or "Code".  Just saying :)

::EDIT::
Damn, I just realized I posted this in the PCB CAD section.  No idea how that happened.  Should probably go in general.  Sorry everyone.
Who's != Whose.  Thanks.

EEVblog:

--- Quote from: Smokey on February 20, 2017, 04:05:37 am ---https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hendrik_Wade_Bode
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hendrik_Wade_Bode#cite_note-Van_Valkenburg-1
"Van Valkenburg, M. E. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, "In memoriam: Hendrik W. Bode (1905-1982)", IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, Vol. AC-29, No 3., March 1984, pp. 193–194. Quote: "Something should be said about his name. To his colleagues at Bell Laboratories and the generations of engineers that have followed, the pronunciation is boh-dee. The Bode family preferred that the original Dutch be used as boh-dah."
It doesn't rhyme with "Mode" or "Code".  Just saying :)

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This comes up every year without fail.
Van Valkenburg is wrong, or at least not fully correct.
"generations of engineers that have followed" do NOT universally pronounce it "boh-dee". You might very well do that in the United States, but the US is not the centre of the universe.
If you were raised as an engineer in Australia then you would pronounce is "Bowed" (as in "code"). That's what is used in industry here and how you are taught to pronounce it.
Welcome to the world of global language evolution.

People who say "Bowed" is "wrong", are clueless or deliberately ignorant about language evolution in the rest of the world.
Anyone who wants to be anal about it had better damn well start saying it "boh-dah" with original Dutch intonation (if any?) or STFU.

Monkeh:

--- Quote from: EEVblog on February 20, 2017, 04:36:39 am ---but the US is not the centre of the universe.

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Wait, WHAT?! This cannot be.

Smokey:
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.

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. 

And I'm totally committed to saying "boh-dah" now :)

Smokey:
Here is another interesting bit of word history, which is actually relevant to electronics since the word shows up a lot with reference to sticking parts in holes.  We have probably all seen both spellings used.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/how-thru-turned-into-through

The difference is that thru-hole parts were not named after Mr. Jonathan Thru.

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