TIL that “spinor” is pronounced “spin”+“or”, which makes perfect sense ... but either none of my physics lecturers used the word, or I forgot how they said it. When reading it in text for the last 4 decades, I’ve been mentally pronouncing it “spine”+“or”.
@gregeganSF right from my earliest memories of learning to read, there was a book called "An introduction to spinors, tensors, and relativistic wave equations" in my bedroom. Never understood a word of it, alas.
@kitten_tech Assuming you’re not joking, how did it come to be in your room? Had a member of your family studied physics? (If so, you should have asked them to explain it to you!)
@gregeganSF having English as a second language made me not question my apparently incorrect pronunciation, but at the same time I guess I was saying it right all this time then? 😅
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