• fubo@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Well if the physicists can steal “quark” from James Joyce, the sealologists can steal “galumph” from Lewis Carroll.

    (“Quark” rhymes with “Mark” in the original, though; not with “dork”.)

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        Murray Gell-Mann did (the guy who named them for anyone unaware). The general opinion seems to have been similar to that of the guy who invented the gif however: just because he named it doesn’t mean he wasn’t wrong about how it is pronounced.