I wish he'd actually read some Shakespeare... - onedoug
Prove how responsive he is. Spell out N-U-C-L-E-A-R to him. Tell him it's pronounced "new-clee-ar," and not "new-kew-lar." I associate that pronunciation with gappy education, which he DOES NOT otherwise seem to have. But it makes him SOUND bumpkinish. - BibChr
Perhpas I can kill two birds with one stone.
While I am CERTAIN that Hugh often reads FR (in general), and ALWAYS reads these threads about him (in particular), I am not sure that he can work ALL of our ideas into every one of his shows. He needs to (and does) prioritize. Edit. Focus.
I do not recall him ever mis-pronouncing nuclear, but if he ever did, he shares that foible with Presidents George Herbert Walker Bush, Dwight Eisenhower, and Jimmy ("I cain't PRONOUNCE "nuk-u-lar engineer," but I ARE one!") Carter
As noted in Paul Brian's Common Errors in English a good memory aid is to remember your manners: It is not polite to say, "Nuke You!" The CORRECT pronounciation would result from imagining what General Grant would have said, if he had had the A-bomb during our American Civil War: "Nuke Lee!"
Bringing in the Shakespeare connection, however, that one doug recommends, we might invoke the tragic King who was blinded by his dysfunctional (nuclear) family:
from Cyber Liberty's AWESOME collection
William Dyce: King Lear and the Fool in the Storm
from Barbara Paul's extraordinary Titles from Shakespeare
(It helps if you say it with a Southern accent, "Nuke LEE-ar")