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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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[hrafn.livejournal.com]

How, how, HOW could anyone with the appropriate authority have possibly decided that is a legitimate variant pronunciation? That's so depressing.

[prog.livejournal.com]

I'd stand with this attitude even if I couldn't find any cites at all. It's just a way that some clumps of people pronounce the word. *stamp*

[hrafn.livejournal.com]

I don't know if I'd have more, or less, hatred for the popularization of this pronunciation if I'd only ever heard GW use it - as opposed to first hearing it on The Simpsons.

It would be (slightly more) tolerable if it were a chiefly British pronunciation (like al-u-min-i-um and "orientate" for aluminum and orient).

. . .

Oh, this is frightening: Google gives me almost 10 times as many hits for "aluminium" as for "aluminum."

*waves a white flag*

[hrafn.livejournal.com]

I should probably point out that I am perhaps too sensitive to pronunciations, to the point that it drives me utterly mad when people say things like "heightTH" or put N sounds into Italian words where there is no N (calling Vicenza "ViNcenza").