How do you pronounce quark?
In general, when you want the pronounciation for a word, it’s a good thing to check with a dictionary.
Merriam-Webster Online is an excellent online dictionary, which also includes audio samples of words, and for the word quark, it says:
Pronunciation: ‘kwork, ‘kwärk
Comments
Comment from Daniel on 2005-02-15 20:51
Kwork, as any other pronunciation would be silly.
Comment from Geir Thomas Nordskog on 2005-02-15 22:33
The name quark was coined by Murray Gell-Man, from a line in James Joyce’s Finnegan’s Wake: “Three quarks for Muster Mark”. Although Joyce appears to have meant it to be pronounced as it is spelt, physicists (for reasons unknown) pronounce it to rhyme with fork.
Ref: http://physics.about.com/cs/thestandardmodel/g/quark.htm
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