How do you pronounce quark?

[xsquared]

When I did physics in college, it was pronounced it to rhyme with park but apparently quark cheese rhymes with cork.

Only read about it and I have never eaten quark myself.

I would say it like a posh duck. Quarrrk.

kw aaah k

Exactly like your post OP. Subatomic particle rhymes with park, manky cheese rhymes with cork.

I say it to rhyme with cork.

I would say it like a posh duck. Quarrrk.

I say both to rhyme with park, but the particle starts "kw" and the cheese starts "kv"

It rhymed with park in the 90s in the UK when I was at uni.

I said both the particle and the cheese to rhyme with park, but is the cheese name a German word which obviously could affect the pronounciation.

Posh duck here!

Quark in star trek rhymed with cork.

Just to throw the cat amongst the pigeons.

Posh duck.

Don’t see how it can rhyme with cork as there’s no “ork” in it..!

Like a Belfast duck.

Then why is Quorn?!?

Quark (as in the elementary particle) was said to rhyme with park when I was at university. I guess I would pronounce the cheese the same way. I’ve never had any reason to say it.

Anyone want to admit that they used to pronounce quinoa to rhyme with lawn mower?

I did

Forgot to say, quark rhymes with cork for me.

Scottish accent here...rhymes with cork, fork and stork for me

The cheese - posh duck
The particle - rhymes with cork

Both rhyme with park

We say kvark because of German heritage and I'd never even realised it would be said differently!

I have never said the word (obviously I’m a pleb). But if I had, I’d have gone for posh duck.

How do you pronounce quinoa? I’ve never had to say that either (see earlier comment about my plebianess).

Keen-wah

Thank you. I deserved to pronounce it incorrectly at some embarrassing moment, as I never told a university flatmate that he was mispronouncing hyperbole - a word he was quite fond of. In my defence he was a young Conservative.

Uni, 70's, AFN it rhymed with Mark.., since it derives from Finnegan's Wake...

"Three quarks for Muster Mark!
Sure he hasn't got much of a bark
And sure any he has it's all beside the mark.

Kwawrk