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ljbrs
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 Posted - 04/28/2005 : 18:54:12
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This evening I watched and listened to our President of the United States of America as he MISPRONOUNCED the word "Nuclear" over and over again. I wish "W" could find somebody to help him pronounce that word correctly. He talks about "NO CHILD LEFT BEHIND", but he was left behind when it came to the word, "NUCLEAR." I realize that there are many, many people who make the same error (SOME OF WHOM TEACH PHYSICS)!!! However, how can anyone, including physics professors, read the word: "NUCLEAR" (NEW'-KLEE-ER) and mistakenly end up with "NUCULAR" (NEW'-CUE-LAR). Both George W. Bush and his father, George H. W. Bush graduated from one of the finest preparatory schools in the country (Phillips Academy Andover, in Andover, Massachusetts). Perhaps no one ever corrected George W. So, consequently, George W. Bush became a "child left behind" (at least when it came to certain mispronunciations)....
Incidentally, both my father and my brother graduated from Phillips Academy Andover (but at different times from the Bushes). My father went on to Oxford University (England) and my brother went on to Harvard University.
Oh well...
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"Innumerable suns exist; innumerable earths revolve about these suns in a manner similar to the way the seven planets revolve around our sun. Living beings inhabit these worlds."
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Edited by - ljbrs on 05/05/2005 18:41:57
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Ricky
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filthy
SFN Die Hard
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Posted - 04/28/2005 : 19:16:22 [Permalink]
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quote:
Originally posted by ljbrs
This evening I watched and listened to our President of the United States of America as he MISPRONOUNCED the word "Nuclear" over and over again. I wish "W" could find somebody to help him pronounce that word correctly. He talks about "NO CHILD LEFT BEHIND", but he was left behind when it came to the word, "NUCLEAR." I realize that there are many, many people who make the same error (SOME OF WHOM TEACH PHYSICS)!!! However, how can anyone, including physics professors, read the word: "NUCLEAR" (NEW'-KLEE-ER) and mistakenly end up with "NUCULAR" (NEW'-CUE-LAR). Both George W. Bush and his father, George H. W. Bush graduated from one of the finest preparatory schools in the country (Phillips Academy Andover, in Andover, Massachusetts). Perhaps no one ever corrected George W. So, consequently, George W. Bush became a "child left behind" (at least when it came to certain mispronunciations)....
Oh well...
ljbrs
Allow me to direct you to the Humanzee thread. There, all will be made clear....
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Dave W.
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Posted - 04/28/2005 : 20:44:38 [Permalink]
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Someone else famous was doing this back when I was in high school. Around 1983 or so. It happened so often with this person - whom, I don't recall - that waiting for the "nucular holly-cost" was a popular joke among us high-SAT-score geeks.
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Boron10
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USA
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Posted - 04/28/2005 : 21:38:48 [Permalink]
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President Carter, a graduate of the US Naval Academy and a NUCLEAR SUBMARINE OFFICER, also pronounced it "noo-cue-ler"
Apparently it is Southern origin, rather than intelligence or education that causes this mispronunciation. |
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Valiant Dancer
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Posted - 04/29/2005 : 06:40:32 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Boron10
President Carter, a graduate of the US Naval Academy and a NUCLEAR SUBMARINE OFFICER, also pronounced it "noo-cue-ler"
Apparently it is Southern origin, rather than intelligence or education that causes this mispronunciation.
[Bill Engvall mode on]
People hear the southern accent and want to deduct 100 IQ points. Imagine this, you're sitting in a brain surgeon's office and he says, "What we're gonna do is saw offen the top of yer head, root around in there with a little stick and see if we can't get out that dadburned clot".
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pfretzschner
Skeptic Friend
USA
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Posted - 04/29/2005 : 08:54:48 [Permalink]
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Apparently it is Southern origin, rather than intelligence or education that causes this mispronunciation.
Okay, but how does that apply to President Bush, whose origins are about as Southern as mine (born in Akron, Ohio)? |
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Kil
Evil Skeptic
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Posted - 04/29/2005 : 09:13:17 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by pfretzschner
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Apparently it is Southern origin, rather than intelligence or education that causes this mispronunciation.
Okay, but how does that apply to President Bush, whose origins are about as Southern as mine (born in Akron, Ohio)?
Carter has an excuse but Bush is an idiot? I can live with that... |
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sweetmiracle
Skeptic Friend
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Posted - 05/01/2005 : 10:42:47 [Permalink]
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I think it's an affectation, a 'just folks' kind of thing.
BTW, did anyone see his wife at the Washington Press corps dinner? She made the point that she CAN pronounce 'nuclear'. She also said that, despite the fact that she spent twelve hours a day among stacks of books, she somehow met George...
All in all, she was pretty funny.
Laura Bush has grabbed the limelight from her husband at a White House press dinner, saying she is a 'Desperate Housewife'.
The first lady of the US drew a standing ovation after interrupting her husband's speech and announcing: "Ladies and gentlemen I've been attending these dinners for years. Well, I've got a few things I want to say for a change."
In front of a clearly surprised President she then went on to say: "George always says he's delighted to come to these press dinners. Baloney. He's usually in bed by now.
"Here's our typical evening. By 9pm Mr Excitement here is asleep and I'm watching Desperate Housewives. Ladies and Gentlemen, I AM a Desperate Housewife."
She went on: "But I'm proud of George. He's learnt a lot about ranching since that first year when he tried to milk the horse. What's worse, it was a male horse.
"George's answer to any problem at the ranch is to cut it down with a chainsaw. Which I think is why he and [vice-president Dick] Cheney and [Defence Secretary Donald] Rumsfeld get along so well."
Mother-in-law Barbara Bush didn't escape the teasing - she was likened to The Godfather legend Don Corleone.
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trishran
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Posted - 05/03/2005 : 19:32:27 [Permalink]
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| Even more than nukular, I am aggrevated when not only the President who started the blinkin war, but so many American troups think they are fighting in Eye-rack. Eee-rock. Even Ih-rock. How hard is that? Well, if your relationships with pretzels and bicycles are life-threatening, I guess there's a limit to one's attention span and ability to learn... |
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Wendy
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Posted - 05/11/2005 : 05:39:13 [Permalink]
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I feel your pain, ljbrs. Still, I'm about to give in and order this t-shirt.
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Dik-Dik Van Dik
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Posted - 05/12/2005 : 18:47:51 [Permalink]
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| Is it true some americans also pronounce the word 'FOLIAGE' as 'FOILAGE'? i saw that on the simpsons but couldn't believe it. |
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H. Humbert
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Posted - 05/12/2005 : 21:20:41 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Dik-Dik Van Dik
Is it true some americans also pronounce the word 'FOLIAGE' as 'FOILAGE'? i saw that on the simpsons but couldn't believe it.
Hmm, not that I've ever heard. "FOE-lee-adge" is how I say it. But it might be a Southern thing. They have their own language.
But since listening to the BBC I've noticed quite a few words Brits pronounce differently than Americans: Aluminum. Schedule. (Which I think is weird. I mean is "school" pronounced "skool" or "shool?") Combatant. I'm sure there's more. Americans are guilty, however, of pronouncing "supposedly" as "supposably."
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Dude
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Posted - 05/12/2005 : 22:05:13 [Permalink]
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Americans are guilty, however, of pronouncing "supposedly" as "supposably."
Not all of us....
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H. Humbert
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Posted - 05/12/2005 : 22:46:53 [Permalink]
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Americans are guilty, however, of pronouncing "supposedly" as "supposably."
Not all of us....
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Dik-Dik Van Dik
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Posted - 05/13/2005 : 00:07:37 [Permalink]
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| schedule is not universaly pronounced like that in england. Infact i'd say it not even a majority say it that way, i think thats a class thing rather than a regional thing. BBC is generally full of upper middle class people with generic accents who don't represent the majority of the country |
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