I give up.
Posted by mothertree (Member # 4999) on :
I think the proper spelling is nookyuler.
Posted by Bob_Scopatz (Member # 1227) on :
I stand corrected.
Thanks!
Posted by Teshi (Member # 5024) on :
Let's just lose that middle syllable completely:
"Nooklar"
Posted by Bob_Scopatz (Member # 1227) on :
No! You have to have it. Otherwise high government officials in the US would continue to mispronounce the word.
It's phonetically: Nook'-yuh-ler
Posted by Teshi (Member # 5024) on :
*practices*
I wouldn't want to embarass myself by pronouncing it wrong, and sound stoopid!
Posted by ElJay (Member # 6358) on :
Teshi, having now heard you speak, I cannot even conceive of you so much as attempting to say that word that way.
Yes, that is a compliment.
Posted by Eruve Nandiriel (Member # 5677) on :
quote: Okay, I give up, let's just all say "nucular"
No! NOOOOO! Posted by Teshi (Member # 5024) on :
I use both "stoopid" and "stupid" but they both have different meanings. "Stoopid" is reserved for only the most basically ignorant of situations or occurances; I use it about once a year, perhaps less. "Stupid" is for normal situations, although thinking about it I don't use "styupid" all that often, either.
Posted by narrativium (Member # 3230) on :
Hey, Jack Bauer says it, so it must be right. Posted by Ela (Member # 1365) on :
Bob, it drives me crazy, too.
The worst was when I had a physics instructor in college who pronounced it that way.
Posted by Lost Ashes (Member # 6745) on :
Nyuk-nyuk-nyuk-lee-uhr...
Embrace the power of slapstick!
Posted by Dagonee (Member # 5818) on :
Add Febyooary to the list of new pronunciations.
Posted by maui babe (Member # 1894) on :
And "lieberry"
Posted by Little_Doctor (Member # 6635) on :
Nu uh. It's Newkyoulare. Silent "e".
[ April 28, 2005, 10:16 PM: Message edited by: Little_Doctor ]
Posted by Dagonee (Member # 5818) on :
Quickly Fallout Boy, to the Nuke-You-Lair!
Posted by Teshi (Member # 5024) on :
Now, 'Library' I do pronounce correctly, because I always used to spell it wrong (as "liberry" ) so I started to pronounce it correctly so I would spell it correctly .
Posted by Little_Doctor (Member # 6635) on :
Wend's Day? or Wed-Nes-Day?
Posted by Teshi (Member # 5024) on :
Or Weden's Day, which is how I pronounce it. But it's from Woden's Day, so my way is closer to the original, if not the present spelling.
Posted by Little_Doctor (Member # 6635) on :
Bah!
Posted by Teshi (Member # 5024) on :
ps. That italicised my was not intended to look (or sound) snitty, but since it does I rather like the tongue-in-cheekness of it so I've decided to leave it.
Posted by Little_Doctor (Member # 6635) on :
<--Tounge out of cheek. Just to be contrary.
Posted by Jon Boy (Member # 4284) on :
Oh yeah? Well I say thrid and brid and thourgh instead of third and bird and through. It's closer to the original, so that makes it better, right?
Posted by Teshi (Member # 5024) on :
Yes.
EDIT: Actually, no, it shows that you know Far Too Much . Which is a good thing.
[ April 28, 2005, 10:34 PM: Message edited by: Teshi ]
Posted by Jon Boy (Member # 4284) on :
Why thank you. Posted by Little_Doctor (Member # 6635) on :
Teshi:
Was that "Yes" with an eh sound? Or a "Yes" with an ay sound?
[ April 28, 2005, 10:41 PM: Message edited by: Little_Doctor ]
Posted by Orson Scott Card (Member # 209) on :
Screw nucular and nuclear, both of them. The proper word, as any child of the 50s would know, is "atomic."
Posted by Tater (Member # 7035) on :
Let's call the whole thing off.
Posted by Portabello (Member # 7710) on :
@ Tater
Posted by Hobbes (Member # 433) on :
You're just partial to Tater because you're both food.
Hobbes Posted by whiskysunrise (Member # 6819) on :
Posted by Princess Leah (Member # 6026) on :
Now I have to ask, but it's your own fault : TAY-tor or TAH-tor?
Posted by imenimok (Member # 7679) on :
My fifth grade social studies teacher (who later became my sixth grade science teacher) said nucular...and cholestriol. Made me squirm in my seat even then.
Posted by rav (Member # 7595) on :
How about luke-leia-er.
Posted by Jonathan Howard (Member # 6934) on :
I would like to laugh at Amaarican phanedigs. Oukay?
Frst av aal, et's nookl'ar, and Mistr Caurd (shid A say Awrsan?), et's troo theat et's "ataamik". Way-da-gou!
A doo need sum rbl tea, awr A'll go creyzee!
Jawnathan Haw'rd
Posted by rav (Member # 7595) on :
I installed eunuchs on my computer.
Posted by MyrddinFyre (Member # 2576) on :
rav:
*refrains urge to unleash Rhode Islandese all over the thread*
Posted by Gryphonesse (Member # 6651) on :
just reading the TITLE of this thread makes me twitch. I will probably burst a blood vessel yelling at the tv... It's bad enough that the PRESIDENT can't (or won't) pronounce it correctly, but Monday night on 24 they did the same thing! My husband has gotten used to me screaming NEW-CLEE-UR!!! when I hear the *other* pronunciation.
Anyone ever see that espidode of the Simpsons where Homer corrects Lisa? "No, honey, it's Noo-cue-lur..."
Posted by sndrake (Member # 4941) on :
Hmmm...
Some people pick peculiar* things to worry about.
*Pronounced "peekyooleeyar" (emphasis on second syllable)
Posted by imenimok (Member # 7679) on :
Oh man, I totally forgot. I was in a hillbilly wedding over the weekend. The groom couldn't say "poverty." So he'll be keeping his bride in "proverty" or wealth. Whatever that is...
Posted by UofUlawguy (Member # 5492) on :
February or Febyuary?
Posted by narrativium (Member # 3230) on :
I'll split your atom!
Posted by Tater (Member # 7035) on :
TAY ter, definately.
Or you could just say Awesome. Posted by Bob_Scopatz (Member # 1227) on :
OSC...did you have to "duck...and cover?"
I still remember those drills. Look, my little desk will save me!!!
I was the kid assigned to close the blinds. In retrospect, I think the teacher decided if any kid was going to get vaporized by the flash, it'd be me.
Posted by Aunty Eem (Member # 7743) on :
Anyone ever hear of a cukecummper---My sister-in-law drives me bonkers with that one!
Posted by Bob_Scopatz (Member # 1227) on :
She's just gerkin your chain.
Posted by Jon Boy (Member # 4284) on :
quote:I would like to laugh at Amaarican phanedigs. Oukay?
Frst av aal, et's nookl'ar, and Mistr Caurd (shid A say Awrsan?), et's troo theat et's "ataamik". Way-da-gou!
A doo need sum rbl tea, awr A'll go creyzee!
Wow. I don't know what Americans you're talking to, but I'm pretty sure they're not speaking English.
Posted by littlemissattitude (Member # 4514) on :
quote:Screw nucular and nuclear, both of them. The proper word, as any child of the 50s would know, is "atomic."
Right on.
Posted by Bob_Scopatz (Member # 1227) on :
Is it okay if I still cringe when someone says "let me axe you a question."
I mean...they might really HAVE an axe. That's my fear.
Posted by Intelligence3 (Member # 6944) on :
You do realize it's on purpose, right? For one thing, Cheney pronounces nuclear correctly. For another, the President's surrounded by image consultants. Someone, somewhere, has decided that it makes him sound like an "Average Joe." In fact, I bet it is seen as good because it plays to his base and infuriates his opposition, which further solidifies his base. And the gamble is whether it bothers those in the middle ground. They've played a number of those gambles relatively successfully, as evidenced by the portrait on the wall at the post office.
[ April 30, 2005, 12:44 PM: Message edited by: Intelligence3 ]
Posted by AC (Member # 7909) on :
but "atomic" could refer to the entire atom, as opposed to just the nucleus.
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