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[โ€“] CodexArcanum@lemmy.world 9 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I hadn't read there were so many angles on the word. I had heard it came from Joyce and never dug deeper. I'm surprised that you quoted a passage from Oxford but didn't check the OED. Joyce being Irish, the OED would better document the English he'd have been using. Merriam-Webster and derivatives are American English dictionaries.

From the OED:

Honestly, I'm just surprised physicists don't have a gif/jif thing going on with quork/quark pronunciation.

[โ€“] General_Effort@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago

Huh. I thought I did check OED. Maybe it's cause I don't have a subscription. Or maybe I just mucked up the search.