[omnivore]

Regarding pronounciation of "nuclear," I remember reading back in the 70's, during the Carter administration, (Carter had been an engineering officer on a nuclear submarine and also pronounced it "nucyoolar"), where that came from in the nuclear industry. One of the physicists on the Manhattan project was from the South and would pronounce it that way for whatever reason. Later that physicist became a professor at Harvard. So some of his students started pronouncing it that way just as an in-joke as a badge of "I went to Harvard," as in "I learned to talk this way from Prof. FamousGuy." So then other people in the nuclear industry started saying it that way because they wanted to be as cool as the Harvard guys, pretend like they'd studied under the guy at some point also.

Now it's just the way it's said by a lot of people. I think the MSM explained it in the 70's so people wouldn't think Carter was a moron (even if he was), but they won't repeat the explanation now, because they have a vested interest in painting Bush as a moron (and he might be).

[Tamar1973]

Bush didn’t go to Harvard, though. He went to Yale, right?

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What about this one:

Is it Vincent van Go , or

Vincent van Gochhh ?