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How to pronounce Fokker-Planck

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fok er plahnk /ˈfɒkər ˈplɑːŋk/ mp3
or: fok er plank /ˈfɒkər ˈplæŋk/

Fokker-Planck is most commonly pronounced "fok er plahnk" (/ˈfɒkər ˈplɑːŋk/). This is the widely-used reading among engineers, though edge cases exist.

After Dutch physicist Adriaan Fokker and German physicist Max Planck; 'FOK-er PLAHNGK', Planck like 'plonk'.

Alternate readings you might hear:

Source: Wikipedia

Pronouncing project and product names correctly avoids the small but persistent friction of being gently corrected during standups, conference Q&As, and team calls. Hearing the word a few times locks in the right reading better than reading IPA ever will. Pronounce is a community-maintained dictionary — every entry tagged with a confidence level and (where possible) a citable source.

Hear it from the command line

$ say-it Fokker-Planck # primary × 3 + audible "or: …" for each alternate
$ say-it --alt Fokker-Planck # focus on the first alternate
$ say-it --all Fokker-Planck # primary AND every alternate, each repeated
$ say-it --solo Fokker-Planck # primary only, no "or: …" tail
$ say-it --why Fokker-Planck # print the dict entry with source URL

Install the CLI: git clone https://github.com/anzy-renlab-ai/pronounce.git && cd pronounce && ./install.sh

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