"Nuclear"

[Munjibunga]

Pronouncing it 'nuke-yu-ler' is a bad idear.

You're been watching too much American Chopper.

 

[duke2004]

And of course this pronunciation by a man who grew up in a rich white northeast suburb, went to finishing school and who's middle name is Walker....He's not a real southerner no matter how many hats he wears.

 

[Bryan R. Tyler]

You're been watching too much American Chopper.

Nah, just living in Connecticut too long. For some reason, it's part of the dialect around here.

 

[geoffkhan]

Well, it is in the dictionary as a valid pronounciation:

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(click the sound icons to hear the pronounciations)

I also looked it up in 2 of my dictionaries at home and they came up with the same results for various correct pronounciations.

 

[robb.]

But what if it's plural or possesive?

that's very simple. whereas plural of "y'all" is "all y'all", possessive is "y'all's". plural possessive is "all y'all's".

for example, my wife worked at a restaurant for a month when we first moved down here and regularly received the question, "whur's y'all's bathroom?"

she would come home and say, "you know, there's a whole word for that back home. it's 'your'."

a couple of my friends down here, who are also not from the south (they're from missouri and texas, a land unto itself), have taken to adding an "s" to everything. as in, "go up in the fridge and get me a busch's light."

robb.

 

[Brad Barker]

Well, it is in the dictionary as a valid pronounciation:

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(click the sound icons to hear the pronounciations)

I also looked it up in 2 of my dictionaries at home and they came up with the same results for various correct pronounciations.

well, some dictionaries are traditionalist and like to preserve "how the language should be."

others, like merriam-webster, i suppose, take into account common usage. in these cases, the more correct (rather, more traditional) case is listed first.

in response to seeing the "new-kyoo-ler" pronunciation in merriam, i would rather not buy a dictionary from that publisher. but in changing times, what is regarded to be an error now may be what is correct later.

...but you'll still be wrong!

 

[Dan Molina]

if a word ends with an "a" my mom will replace it was an "er." Like soder for soda.

 

[flatwounds]

Peter Griffin(Family Guy):
"Haha Lois, you said 'nuclear',
it's pronounced 'nucular'...the 's' is silent!"

 

[canopener]

It's not nearly as annoying to me as when people add an 's' to business names that don't have it:

"Wal-Marts"
"Barnes and Nobles
"El Chicos"



brad cook

Ha! I never noticed that when I was in TX...
But that is a running joke among my co-workers, and it IS very annoying!

 

[geoffkhan]

well, some dictionaries are traditionalist and like to preserve "how the language should be."

others, like merriam-webster, i suppose, take into account common usage. in these cases, the more correct (rather, more traditional) case is listed first.

in response to seeing the "new-kyoo-ler" pronunciation in merriam, i would rather not buy a dictionary from that publisher. but in changing times, what is regarded to be an error now may be what is correct later.

...but you'll still be wrong!

Ahem. That's why I said I also looked it up in dictionaries at home, too. So it's not just Merriam-webster.

Both of the dictionaries were different brands and not very recent, but very excellent and exact. Both said "new-kyoo-ler" was a valid pronounciation.

You're saying that pronounciation is wrong because of politically-related issues that I dare not discuss in the "off-topic" forum.

 

[Brad Barker]

Ahem. That's why I said I also looked it up in dictionaries at home, too. So it's not just Merriam-webster.

Both of the dictionaries were different brands and not very recent, but very excellent and exact. Both said "new-kyoo-ler" was a valid pronounciation.

You're saying that pronounciation is wrong because of politically-related issues that I dare not discuss in the "off-topic" forum.

my webster's new world dictionary from 1996 has only one pronunciation. the traditional one.

it might be interesting to compare the pronunciations from dictionaries in 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, and 2004.

for exactly that same political reason you have implied, as i am doing now.