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Are you one of those people who pronounces "nuclear" as "nuke-yu-ler?"

Posted - April 18, 2020

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  • 44656
    I'm unclear about that.
      April 18, 2020 9:01 AM MDT
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  • 7408
    Yes, how else can it be pronounced??
      April 18, 2020 9:03 AM MDT
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  • 44656
    Poutine.
      April 18, 2020 9:04 AM MDT
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  • 7408
    lol 
      April 18, 2020 9:05 AM MDT
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  • 7408
    I am Honestly confused here, that’s how I know it to be pronounced...
      April 18, 2020 9:07 AM MDT
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  • 53529

      itz knot you’re falt yore fromme Kannada ,u ain’t kno howe two talc rite N-eway .
      April 18, 2020 9:10 AM MDT
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  • 7408
    Lol, that’s the only way I’ve ever heard it pronounced, seriously. 
      April 18, 2020 9:14 AM MDT
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  • 13277
    Then you are one of those people, eh? The correct pronunciation is "nuke-lee-er."
      April 18, 2020 9:20 AM MDT
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  • 7408
    I’ve never heard it pronounced like that, ever. I think you all are making this up.

      April 18, 2020 9:22 AM MDT
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  • 13277
    Who all? Me all? I know you all talk funny up in the Great White North, but still. I think you need to get oot and aboot more, eh? Aw geez.
      April 18, 2020 9:26 AM MDT
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  • 7408
    ”you all” Meaning everyone other than me that has posted on this thread. YOU ALL talk funny, not me. -_- 
      April 18, 2020 9:29 AM MDT
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  • 53529

      Yes, Jaimie, you figured us out, you’re much too smart for us and our evil plan to take over the world by inventing new and secret ways to change the English language. I hope you haven’t mentioned your discovery to anyone else, have you?  Listen, we should discuss this more in depth. Would you mind stepping into the er, um, the “conference room” I’ve set up just for that purpose?  (Cough, cough.)



    ~
      April 18, 2020 9:31 AM MDT
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  • 7408
    Well I’m glad you were willing to admit the truth. No need to further discuss, bye. 
      April 18, 2020 9:49 AM MDT
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  • 5391
    I thought there WAS only one of those people. 
      April 18, 2020 9:05 AM MDT
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  • 44656
    No...everyone in W's home state, Texas.
      April 18, 2020 9:09 AM MDT
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  • 5391
    Ahh, I see. A localized affliction. I also hear that death row in Texas has an express lane. Hmmm. This post was edited by Don Barzini at April 18, 2020 11:15 AM MDT
      April 18, 2020 10:20 AM MDT
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  • 53529

      No. I am not a former president of the United States. 

    ~
      April 18, 2020 9:12 AM MDT
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  • No, I'm not a dumb hick. :P 
      April 18, 2020 9:41 AM MDT
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  • 7408
    Omfg! 
      April 18, 2020 9:50 AM MDT
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  • 8214
    Nuke-le-er. 
      April 18, 2020 5:07 PM MDT
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  • 17620
    No.  President Bush got a lot of kidding about the way he pronounced it.
      April 18, 2020 7:39 PM MDT
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  • 4624
    Agh, yuck! That pronunciation (nuke-yu-ler) drives me nuts.

    Is it lack of education that causes it?
      April 19, 2020 6:19 AM MDT
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