Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!asuvax!noao!arizona!arizona.edu!cerritos.edu!orion.oac.uci.edu!hardy From: hardy@golem.ps.uci.edu (Meinhard E. Mayer (Hardy)) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: Webster entry error. Send to someone who is i Message-ID: Date: 1 May 91 20:05:17 GMT References: <629@rosie.NeXT.COM><18873@sdcc6.ucsd.edu> Organization: U.C.Irvine, Dept. of Physics Lines: 29 Nntp-Posting-Host: golem.ps.uci.edu In-reply-to: ikoutsel@sdcc6.ucsd.edu's message of 1 May 91 06:28:14 GMT 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) ------------- 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 ----------- 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 -------****------- Meinhard E. Mayer (Hardy); Department of Physics, University of California Irvine CA 92717; (714) 856 5543; hardy@golem.ps.uci.edu or MMAYER@UCI.BITNET