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家园 quark google xerox都是拍脑袋造出来的。

源字更冷僻。

In 1963, when I assigned the name "quark" to the fundamental constituents of the nucleon, I had the sound first, without the spelling, which could have been "kwork". Then, in one of my occasional perusals of Finnegans Wake, by James Joyce, I came across the word "quark" in the phrase "Three quarks for Muster Mark". Since "quark" (meaning, for one thing, the cry of the gull) was clearly intended to rhyme with "Mark", as well as "bark" and other such words, I had to find an excuse to pronounce it as "kwork". But the book represents the dream of a publican named Humphrey Chimpden Earwicker. Words in the text are typically drawn from several sources at once, like the "portmanteau" words in "Through the Looking-Glass". From time to time, phrases occur in the book that are partially determined by calls for drinks at the bar. I argued, therefore, that perhaps one of the multiple sources of the cry "Three quarks for Muster Mark" might be "Three quarts for Mister Mark", in which case the pronunciation "kwork" would not be totally unjustified. In any case, the number three fitted perfectly the way quarks occur in nature.

A googol is the large number 10^100, that is, the digit 1 followed by one hundred zeros

Xerography is a moder word developed from two Greek roots meaning "dry writing."

我倒是希望造字人能多考虑到读字人的知识水平,而不是光顾着表示自己多聪明。googol不过是万极极(大数定义 10^48:极 10^44:载   10^40:正  10^36:涧   10^32:沟   10^28:穰 10^20:垓 10^16:京 10^12:兆)。 xerox不过是复印,quark:夸克本来就是个拟声词。都不用查字典就知音知义了。

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