ive seen an influx of people getting over other people pronouncing “nuclear” as “nuke-euler” instead of “nuke-lee-er” more recently. me personally, i just dont see the issue. (yeah I know “me personally” is grammatically redundant. evidently, I don’t give a hoot.)
you still know what word they’re saying, there’s plenty of english words that are spelled different than they are pronounced, or with two valid pronunciations, Nuclear (/nu:-cli:-er/ / /nu:-kju:-ler/) is one of them. we have words like Colonel (/ker-nul/), so I really dont get why it bothers people so much.
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Nucular would have been understood haha
fuck the grammar police.
I think NOT being bothered is the default…
You are clearly more mature than any 20 people.
I think what bothers me more is how you spelled out the pronunciation for “nucular”
Not all of us are saints like you, Grugg.
I started saying it this way because of George Dubya and it stuck 😭
I think it’s a Pavlovian response from anyone who remembers the Bush administration 🤷♀️
Right now though, what really alarms me is how you spelled both versions in your title. I had to sit here for a full minute trying to sound them out before I understood what you were trying to say.
I mean some words are pronounced differently because of regional dialects or accents. Some people just pick the weirdest hills to die on. A better example for a military word with different ways to say it because of different dialects is how American English says Lieutenant exactly as spelled while the rest of the former British colonies and the UK say Left tenant. Personally as long as I understand what the word is supposed to be I don’t care how people say it. The world has a lot of regional dialects and accents within languages. That is how languages evolve. It is how Latin became Italian and all of the other romance languages. Give it a few hundred more years and the English language will probably diverge into a few different languages.
Yes it does, at least for some of them. They’re just too polite to say so.
Your first mistake was assuming that words like colonel don’t also infuriate me.
Well it was weird when a president from the US was unable to pronounce it.
Whatever you say Dubya
Nuculer and Simular make me want to punch people