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Peri | 21:26 Sun 05th Jun 2005 | Adverts
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Why is the word nuclear now pronounced nuculer.  Even Jack Bauer on 24 is doing it.
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Perhaps he is modelling himself on Homer Simpson as this is his preferred pronunciation.
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It was good to hear Pres David Palmer pronouncing it correctly tonight on 24.

Isn't it a long-standing joke in American programmes that this word is frequently mispronounced?  Homer works in a nuclear power station, so you'd think he'd know how to pronounce it by now - that's what makes it funny.  The all-time best allusion to this (I think) is in Family Guy, when Lois (WASP wife) correctly pronounces the word and Peter (uneducated slob husband) smugly retorts: "It's pronounced NUCULER, you moron, the S is silent."

It's because G W Bush is a moron, and can't pronounce it properly.
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Im with you finex

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