How do you pronounced Michael Spivak's last name?

[osnarf]

Is it spih-vach?

 

[hitmeoff]

I always thought its was "Spy Vac"

 

[osnarf]

Me too, but i asked my teacher a question in it and he pronounced it spih-vach. So i'm wondering if he knows something I don't :)

 

[fzero]

Me too, but i asked my teacher a question in it and he pronounced it spih-vach. So i'm wondering if he knows something I don't :)

I've never heard it pronouced differently from "spih-vack." Obviously in English the i and a are short vowels.

 

[osnarf]

vack like a yak in a kayak? or like mach.

 

[fzero]

vack like a yak in a kayak? or like mach.

Short "a," so like yak.

 

[Ashuron]

spih-vach seems correct

 

[mathwonk]

i have known him for 45 years. i have always pronounced it as spih' - vak, as has everyone else who knew him, and he has never objected.