Perhaps was too quick to judge anyone else’s linguistic skills.
The other day I encountered this from Stephen Hawking’s A Brief History of Time:
The other day I encountered this from Stephen Hawking’s A Brief History of Time:
The word quark is supposed to be pronounced to rhyme with quart, but with a k at the end instead of a t, but is usually pronounced to rhyme with lark.
Huh? Let’s take a better look at this, curtosy of http://lingorado.com/ipa/
British
| quark | ~kwɔːk~ |
| quart | ~kwɔːt~ |
| lark | ~lɑːk~ |
American
| quark | ~kwɑrk~ |
| quart | ~kwɔrt~ |
| lark | ~lɑrk~ |
Hawking apparently doesn’t like American pronunciation.
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