You can tell that the p-article pun is probably the intended one by the fact that it causes far more groans than the pion one.

On Tue, Jul 11, 2017 at 4:48 AM, De'vID <de.vid.jonpin@gmail.com> wrote:
On 11 July 2017 at 01:40, DloraH <seruq@bellsouth.net> wrote:
> On Mon, 2017-07-10 at 16:47 +0200, De'vID wrote:
>> I just got it.
>>
>> It's the letter "p" plus "an", which is an article in English: p-article.
>
> In particle physics, a pion is any of three subatomic particles...

I'd wager MO is likelier to make a linguistics pun than a physics one.

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