James Prescott Jewel was a very good brewer, a physicist, and a pioneer of everything that

we understand about thermodynamics.

He was so influential, he and his friend Lord Kelvin, that they named the Kelvin after

Kelvin, and the Jewel, a measure of energy, after James Prescott Jewel.

The joke's on him and his heirs, though, because he pronounced his last name, Jowel.

Hey, it's Kevin Beach, and this is a special archived episode of Akembo.

It gets even more ironic.

A researcher named Rensis Leikert pioneered a survey format that you've seen, no doubt

it may be even today.

And in it, you're asked what you like, good choice of name on Rensis's part.

The Leikert survey basically says, on a scale of one to ten, where one is, I hate this

more than anything, and ten is, I love it, and sometimes it's one to five.

Where on the bar chart do you want to put your feelings?

It's been discovered that this is far more useful than up-down voting for finding out

consumer preferences.

But back to the irony part, Rensis Leikert pronounced his last name, Likert.

But everyone says Leikert, partly because it's a pun, partly because it's spelled like

it should be Leikert.

So here's the question.

How do the Wikipedia's settle this argument?

How do they settle the argument of the pronunciation of Jowel and Likert?

Well, you probably guessed.

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