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[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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Pronunciation varies. By my standards a good 20% of common English words are routinely mispronounced in the U.S., even in the north, and I once bought gas in Tennessee and could barely understand the kid at the counter, who was using dialect pronunciations that were at least as far from what I'd like to think of as "standard" English as the pronunciations of my Scotish friends and relatives are.

And for the record, I used to pronounce it nuke-u-lar too, and only changed during the course of taking a Ph.D. in the subject.