To be irritated when the BBC refers to the "Higgs Bosun"

[somebloke123]

Makes it sound like a character from Captain Pugwash ...

Indeed cos its the Higgs Boson.....

I should have made my point more explicitly ...

When it's correctly spelt, I misread it anyway as the Higgs Bosom. Which is indeed a thing of mass.

YANBU. I've heard it misspelt and mispronounced all week. Very annoying.

I read it as Higgs Bosom at first to. I was sat sniggering on the bus at the time

YANBU, but it's even more irritating when they call it 'The God Particle'. (Is it true that this was the fault of a journo after a scientist referred to that goddamn particle?)

There was a letter in New scientist a few months ago saying that some people thought it should have been named the Englert-Brout-Higgs-Guralnik-Hagen-Kibble particle. I reckon they'd have given up searching for it long ago if they'd had to say that every time! My dog says he will continue the more important search for the Kibble particle.

Also been hearing mispronunciations of "Libor" and "Euribor" all week. I thought the BBC had a pronunciation unit to stop this type of thing happening?

Know what you mean somebloke

At the risk of sounding really dumb, aren't 'boson' and 'bosun' pronounced the same?

bosun is 'bow-sun'
bosun is bowz-on

YABU nothing wrong with local pronounications of the word. Whilst it's obviously modern so pronouncing the Bose part would be unusual, the -on suffix is quite common.

Local pronunciations of a subatomic particle?

I've never heard protuns, electruns, neutruns, have you? So why would anyone say 'bosun' if they weren't referring to a seafarer?

YANBU. I'm sure there would be uproar if a football term was mispronounced!

The BBC make frequent typos these days on their News 24 subtitles, often have the wrong caption for the wrong picture, are using the wrong camera etc etc. What chance do they have of getting the Higgs Boson right??

Better watch those subtitles for the Large Hardon Collider then (that typo has come up in the past. )

I thought LIBOR was an acronym so would it have a pronunciation.?

FredFredGeorge

Well actually it's named after the physicist Chandra Bose which in the English-speaking world is pronounced "Bowz" so it does actually seem incorrect to pronounce it "bosun".

Then again no doubt this is an Anglicisation of the Indian pronunciation.

Libor - lie bore how does the been say it ?

Beeb aaaah

somebloke123 the Bos- is pronounced similary in boson and bosun in most dialects of English so I thought you were purely complaining about the -on ending, so I think you need to be more specific in your rants about pronounciation. As I said if you were complaining about how the name part was pronounced then you have more of a complaint. But still not that much of one, whilst it's just more unusual to change the pronounciation of peoples names in such words, it's not that rare.

Bos- is pronounced similary in boson and bosun in most dialects of English

No its not, leastwise, not by any scientists, wherever they hail from. Boson is invariably pronounced as I indicated by anyone with the vaguest clue.

Can I just interrupt to say how much I love mn
Bos-on

says Bowzon. Surely no-one can argue with him?