would people who speak a non-rhotic dialect of english pronounce eula the same as euler?

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@BatElite Euler as in the mathematician. I'm not familiar with any case in which it would be pronounced "you-lar".

@Felthry Well, I'd figure the most probably English pronunciation of EULA is "you-lah"?

Does that make sense?

@BatElite Yeah, it does, but I just can't break the similarity to Euler's name making me want to pronounce it "oi-luh"

@Felthry Makes sense. FWIW I would probably pronounce the r in Euler too, but that might not be correct for the {German? or a dialect?}

@BatElite That's what I meant by saying a "non-rhotic" dialect; several British dialects are examples, where r at the end of a syllable is just not really pronounced

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