hardy@golem.ps.uci.edu (Meinhard E. Mayer (Hardy)) (05/02/91)
I am not at ny NeXT, but here is what Xwebster reports on Athos:
Geographical Names
Athos \'ath-,a^:s, 'a^--,tha^:s\
mountain NE Greece at E end of Acte peninsula; site of a number of
monasteries comprising Mount Ahos (autonomous area)
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quark:
quark \'kwo[0xC7](e)rk, 'kwa^:rk\ n
[coined by Murray Gell-Mann b1929 Am. physicist]
(1964)
:a hypothetical particle that carries a fractional electric charge,
is thought to come in several types (as up, down, strange, charmed,
and bottom), and is held to be a constituent of hadrons
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The Joyce connection is correct; in his 1964 preprint Gell-Mann quotes
the "Three quarks for muster Mark!" in Finnegan's wake (try
quotations for this %-).
Typos occur even in the best of dictionaries!
Greetings,
Hardy
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