dee_dubs@lemmy.worldtoTechnology@lemmy.world•Clean energy could be 'closer than ever' after a nuclear fusion machine smashed a recordEnglish
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11 months agoIt’s ending because it’s old. JET has been running since the 80s. It’s successor is ITER, which ran into some delays, but is expected to be finished sometime next year.
So I ran into this word in two different ways without realizing they were the same word. I saw it written down in various World of Darkness books (where I pronounced it phonetically), and I heard it spoken in the Laundry Files audiobooks (where they pronounce it “gesh”). It took me ages to figure out they were the same word.