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Subject:Re: Yahoo has no staff tech writers From:"Bonnie Granat" <bgranat -at- editors-writers -dot- info> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Thu, 10 Oct 2002 21:17:02 -0400
>
> Kevin, perhaps you missed my point. I am not suggesting that
Julie-yard
> is wrong and zjhwee-YAR is correct. I am saying that Julie-yard has
> become the standard American pronunciation and that this is consistent
> with normal linguistic change. We're just a little earlier on the
curve
> with nucular. Fifty years from now, I'd wager, nuclear will sound
> peculiar to most native speakers.
>
There is a change of spelling involved in the "mispronounciation" of the
word "nuclear". It doesn't seem to be a regional variant, but a
misapprehension of the word itself.
Correct spelling: nuclear --> nu : klee : ur (my phonetic spelling
system)
Incorrect spelling: nucular --> nu : cue : lur (my phonetic spelling
system)
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Were there such a word in existence as "nucular", I would pronounce it
just like Dubya.
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