I'm going to go ahead and jump in here, after keeping my mouth shut for, well, years, since code_slave so sweetly gave me the opening.
I grew up saying nuke-yuh-lur. It was the common and accepted pronunciation of the word in the area I grew up in. Redneck? Sure. Sounds rather daft? Yup. But it was what I was taught, and the way everyone in my town spoke. It stayed nuke-yuh-lar through a physics degree at the University of Washington. It stayed nuke-yuh-lar through working with one of the world's top researchers into nuclear health risk assessment.
And I defy anyone to tell me to my face that I'm stupid.
Frankly, many of the very people from this fine state of North Carolina who have been bitching about this, (particularly from the, shall I say, more rural areas,) have absolutely *ZERO* to say when it comes to screwing up the Queen's English. (You want to listen to someone who sounds like they should be a complete and utter idiot, try recording yourselves some time. And yet, I know you're not.)
So there. Nyah.
Bush may have plenty of behaviour that points to a lack of working intelligence, but for god's sake people... how shallow do you have to be to equate the pronunciation of *one word* with his IQ?
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Date: 2004-09-21 02:10 am (UTC)I grew up saying nuke-yuh-lur. It was the common and accepted pronunciation of the word in the area I grew up in. Redneck? Sure. Sounds rather daft? Yup. But it was what I was taught, and the way everyone in my town spoke. It stayed nuke-yuh-lar through a physics degree at the University of Washington. It stayed nuke-yuh-lar through working with one of the world's top researchers into nuclear health risk assessment.
And I defy anyone to tell me to my face that I'm stupid.
Frankly, many of the very people from this fine state of North Carolina who have been bitching about this, (particularly from the, shall I say, more rural areas,) have absolutely *ZERO* to say when it comes to screwing up the Queen's English. (You want to listen to someone who sounds like they should be a complete and utter idiot, try recording yourselves some time. And yet, I know you're not.)
So there. Nyah.
Bush may have plenty of behaviour that points to a lack of working intelligence, but for god's sake people... how shallow do you have to be to equate the pronunciation of *one word* with his IQ?
Cripes.