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"Peirce", in the case of Benjamin Peirce and family, always rhymes with "terse" and so, in most dialects, is pronounced like the word "purseⓘ". See "Note on the Pronunciation of 'Peirce'", The Peirce [Edition] Project Newsletter, Vol. 1, Nos. 3/4, Dec. 1994, EprintArchived March 3, 2016, at the Wayback Machine.
Grattan-Guinness, Ivor and Walsh, Alison (2008), "Benjamin Peirce", Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Eprint.
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"Peirce", in the case of Benjamin Peirce and family, always rhymes with "terse" and so, in most dialects, is pronounced like the word "purseⓘ". See "Note on the Pronunciation of 'Peirce'", The Peirce [Edition] Project Newsletter, Vol. 1, Nos. 3/4, Dec. 1994, EprintArchived March 3, 2016, at the Wayback Machine.
"Peirce", in the case of Benjamin Peirce and family, always rhymes with "terse" and so, in most dialects, is pronounced like the word "purseⓘ". See "Note on the Pronunciation of 'Peirce'", The Peirce [Edition] Project Newsletter, Vol. 1, Nos. 3/4, Dec. 1994, EprintArchived March 3, 2016, at the Wayback Machine.