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[prog]

[NOOK-yoo-lur] is a perfectly fine way to pronounce the word. It is a legitimate variant and in fact how I learned to say it, growing up. If you think that getting snarky over this is the way to fight a culture war, then you personify everything that's wrong with this side. Shape up and focus

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[lediva.livejournal.com]

Although in that very article, the author points out that he's a "nuclear all the way" person.

I dunno, I'm the same way. I can totally understand differences in vowel pronounciation, etc. But there's only one U in the word, and it's in the first syllable.

But I used to be a big spelling bee geek, so I suppose this comes from that.

[dougo.livejournal.com]

Yeah, and the D comes before the N in "Wednesday", but what does that have to do with pronunciation?

[prog.livejournal.com]

He wasn't saying that everyone who pronounces it otherwise is wrong, though.

The "Ha ha 'nucular' isn't a word and the president says it and that's proof he's an idiot" thing really boils my lobster, and not just because it's also insulting my parents and probably every elementary teacher I ever had. There more legitimate points to hang him on are without number, but they require slightly more effort than "dur hur nucular". I mean, even "Internets" is more mockworthy than that (since it's so far off base to bespeak actual ignorance of what the word means, rather than simply point to a different pronouciation tradition).