# Why do physicists speak English?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [March 3, 2010, 5:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-physicists-speak-english/531088 "2010-03-03T05:19:05Z")\
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**Post date:** [March 7, 2010, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-physicists-speak-english/531088/21 "2010-03-07T00:26:40Z")

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> Adrian;12181498’]Did you read the link? Quark means “curd” in German…

Oh, thank goodness! At first, I though the post said quark = turd! :o

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