PSA

[jaina]

Dear government and military officials,

The word you're looking for is NUCLEAR. NUKE-LEE-ER. Not, I repeat, NOT, nook-you-lar. Please learn to pronounce it properly, because you sound like a FUCKING MORON. The fact that you are in charge of anything remotely nuclear-weapon-related when you can't even say it right *terrifies* me.

Jeebus.

Comments

[julietvalcouer.livejournal.com]

To be honest? I tend to pronounce it "nuke-yu-lar." I mean, if it looks like anything it looks like "new-clear", which just sounds odd to me. I have this urge to break that dipthong and either slur it into "nuke-yu-lar" or "nuke-lee-ar." Can't pronounce the "ea" as one vowel.