Talk:Quark (disambiguation)

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Is it worth trying to say which are named after the particle (the Star Trek character and the Sci-Fi books for instance) and which have other drivations ? -- Beardo 13:30, 14 June 2006 (UTC)

This sounds like a good idea. Any votes against? - Robert Rapplean 17:01, 30 June 2007 (UTC)

The use in Finnegan's Wake isn't really a nonce word, is it? Joyce made up lots of nonce words, but here he was using an existing German word for partially phonetic reasons. (I see this actually got into the article on nonce word, though, so maybe there's some subtlety to "nonce word" that I'm missing.) -Matt McIrvin 14:11, 5 September 2006 (UTC)