Comments on: Claim: CERN (pronounced “KERN”?) Collider Sets Record https://gregladen.com/blog/2010/03/30/claim-cern-pronounced-kern-col/ Sat, 23 Apr 2011 15:01:08 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.8 By: Marion https://gregladen.com/blog/2010/03/30/claim-cern-pronounced-kern-col/#comment-516582 Sat, 23 Apr 2011 15:01:08 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2010/03/30/claim-cern-pronounced-kern-col/#comment-516582 C like s. e like bear. Go here and click on the arrow at the left of “pronunciation”

http://www.forvo.com/word/cern/

]]> By: andy https://gregladen.com/blog/2010/03/30/claim-cern-pronounced-kern-col/#comment-516581 Wed, 31 Mar 2010 12:12:05 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2010/03/30/claim-cern-pronounced-kern-col/#comment-516581 KERN? It’s a conspiracy, I tell you!!!

]]> By: momkat https://gregladen.com/blog/2010/03/30/claim-cern-pronounced-kern-col/#comment-516580 Wed, 31 Mar 2010 10:58:31 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2010/03/30/claim-cern-pronounced-kern-col/#comment-516580 CERN Director General Rolf Heuer pronounces it with a soft C. in a video on the CERN website. Certainly more reliable than a British reporter.

]]> By: Kris https://gregladen.com/blog/2010/03/30/claim-cern-pronounced-kern-col/#comment-516579 Wed, 31 Mar 2010 09:20:37 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2010/03/30/claim-cern-pronounced-kern-col/#comment-516579 The “C” is like the “C” in Celtic and NOT the team.
😉

]]> By: Greg Laden https://gregladen.com/blog/2010/03/30/claim-cern-pronounced-kern-col/#comment-516578 Wed, 31 Mar 2010 00:33:32 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2010/03/30/claim-cern-pronounced-kern-col/#comment-516578 A: Thanks for the links, they are now up and running in current blog posts.

]]> By: A https://gregladen.com/blog/2010/03/30/claim-cern-pronounced-kern-col/#comment-516577 Wed, 31 Mar 2010 00:06:44 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2010/03/30/claim-cern-pronounced-kern-col/#comment-516577 Why didn’t you link to CERN directly:
cern.ch or
http://public.web.cern.ch/public/

-> Link to latest Videos and Animations?
(http://cdsweb.cern.ch/collection/LHC%20First%20Physics%20Videos

It is certainly not KERN
(but Conseil Europeen pour la Recherche Nucleaire
[European Council for Nuclear Research]
and the abbreviation was later adopted as name for the Laboratory
http://public.web.cern.ch/public/en/about/Name-en.html

]]> By: MadScientist https://gregladen.com/blog/2010/03/30/claim-cern-pronounced-kern-col/#comment-516576 Tue, 30 Mar 2010 23:43:57 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2010/03/30/claim-cern-pronounced-kern-col/#comment-516576 Oops … missed Winter Toad’s post. I thought it was “Centre” but “Conseil” sounds more reasonable since there is no actual center – the consortium has numerous laboratories. Bah, I’ll steer clear and pronounce it as if it were Italian.

]]> By: MadScientist https://gregladen.com/blog/2010/03/30/claim-cern-pronounced-kern-col/#comment-516575 Tue, 30 Mar 2010 23:25:22 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2010/03/30/claim-cern-pronounced-kern-col/#comment-516575 That’s “Sern” since it’s the Centre Europeenne pour la Recherche Nucleaire.

]]> By: Ivan https://gregladen.com/blog/2010/03/30/claim-cern-pronounced-kern-col/#comment-516574 Tue, 30 Mar 2010 22:04:13 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2010/03/30/claim-cern-pronounced-kern-col/#comment-516574 So… the folks at ITN don’t know how to pronounce CERN and have no clue about the difference between force and energy.

And this fucks up the reputation of the research that goes on at CERN exactly how?

]]> By: Winter Toad https://gregladen.com/blog/2010/03/30/claim-cern-pronounced-kern-col/#comment-516573 Tue, 30 Mar 2010 19:08:19 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2010/03/30/claim-cern-pronounced-kern-col/#comment-516573 student_b: actually, the ‘C’ in CERN stands for “conseil”. That’s pronounced with a hard ‘c’. However, I’ve never heard “KERN” or “KAIRN” when the name of the lab was used in a conversation being held in French.

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