ikoutsel@sdcc6.ucsd.edu (Ioannis Koutselas) (05/01/91)
I have found an error in Webster's entries. Someone who knows how to contact Webster people , do tell them: If you look at the word Athos, it says it <...> and then it says to look at Mount Ahos ( or Atos) i don't remember which of those two. I KNOW, it is trivial, but i like accuracy. MOreover, I have heard that quark is not something that Gell_man has used for the particle, but rather that he has taken the word from Jame's Joyce books or whatever. I don't think that Joyce is mentioned if you look at the word quark. Thanks. Ioannis < ... >
finn@theory.tn.cornell.edu (Lee Samuel Finn) (05/01/91)
In article <18873@sdcc6.ucsd.edu> ikoutsel@sdcc6.ucsd.edu (Ioannis Koutselas) writes: > >I have found an error in Webster's entries. Someone who knows >how to contact Webster people , do tell them: > . . . > >MOreover, I have heard that quark is not something that Gell_man >has used for the particle, but rather that he has taken the word >from Jame's Joyce books or whatever. I don't think that Joyce is >mentioned if you look at the word quark. > >Thanks. > Ioannis > < ... > Quark, from Finnegans Wake, had no meaning, was used only once, and functioned as a filler word. Without the meaning first given to it by Gell-Mann, it would never have occured in a dictionary. In this context, I'm not sure how the OED, for example, would describe the derivation of the word.
pharr-matthew@cs.yale.edu (Matthew Pharr) (05/06/91)
In article <1991May1.160257.19329@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu> finn@theory.tn.cornell.edu (Lee Samuel Finn) writes: >In article <18873@sdcc6.ucsd.edu> ikoutsel@sdcc6.ucsd.edu (Ioannis Koutselas) writes: >> >>I have found an error in Webster's entries. Someone who knows >>how to contact Webster people , do tell them: >> >. . . While we're on the subject, there is also an error in 'pi'. Somewhere toward the bottom, it says something like "... its value, to _8_ digits is 3.14" the horror, the horror of it all.... matt