Timeline for Why do photons and protons exhibit such anomalous behavior?
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| Jan 24, 2013 at 14:45 | comment | added | user24964 | Confused UK native speaker here. I pronounce the t in photon/proton the same as the t in voting. | |
| Jan 21, 2013 at 21:17 | comment | added | jyc23 | The suffix -one -- as in "ketone", "acetone", also seems to induce the unexpected aspiration. | |
| Jan 20, 2013 at 23:23 | comment | added | Cerberus - Reinstate Monica | Note also that the suffix/ending is -on, not -ton : the stem of Attic phôs "light" is phôt-, as can be seen in photograph, photovoltaic, photosynthesis.... Note that the stem was pha(e)- in other dialects than Attic (cf. Greek pharos, Phaethôn); it is related to Greek pha(i)n- "radiate, appear", as in English phaenomenon, phantastic... | |
| Jan 20, 2013 at 22:08 | comment | added | Rory Alsop | That makes no sense - what would the alternative be? Of course it is aspirated - it is a strongly defined t sound, as is the initial one. | |
| Jan 20, 2013 at 21:35 | comment | added | tchrist♦ | @RoryAlsop Are you claiming that UK speakers do not aspirate the t in proton? | |
| Jan 20, 2013 at 20:51 | comment | added | Rory Alsop | This answer only seems to cover US English. In UK English, there is no stress on the second syllable, and words like proton behave exactly as expected. | |
| Jan 20, 2013 at 20:20 | comment | added | user19341 | Great answer but I have to point out that ion (1834) is actually the word that influenced other physicists to name new discovered particles with the suffix -on [instead of "ton"]. Electron (1894) was later coined. After that then proton (1920) was coined. I study quantum mechanics and particle physics so I'm pretty sensitive to this :) | |
| Jan 16, 2013 at 17:34 | comment | added | starwed | Wilczek supposedly named the axion after a brand of bleach, on the basis that it sounded like a particle name. :) (I've heard him mention this at a talk, and I think you can check this article for confirmation.) | |
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| Jan 16, 2013 at 14:37 | history | answered | Marcus_33 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |