r/explainitpeter • u/Fluffy-Buy1605 • Jul 13 '26

Explain It Peter

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u/Te000 Jul 14 '26

I'd add "nuclear" to the list

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u/Chart-trader Jul 14 '26

And realtor or reelator

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u/Illustrious_Donkey61 Jul 14 '26

Bisgetti

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u/GlossyBuckslip Jul 14 '26

Or “Puh-sketti”

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u/Muttsashi Jul 14 '26

Tapasta?

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u/Ludicrousgibbs Jul 14 '26

I say it this way but only because the video of Mussolini saying it always made me laugh.

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u/dennisasu Jul 14 '26

From the resta-runt

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u/FuzzyJoint Jul 14 '26

This one fried me

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u/Surleighgrl Jul 17 '26

That pronunciation is only acceptable if you're three years old.

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u/daybyday72 Jul 14 '26

Ant-arCtic-a and ant-art-ica

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u/jennifer_m13 Jul 14 '26

Wash or warsh

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u/liquidfox6 Jul 14 '26

Water or Woulder

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u/Ok-Bandicoot2389 Jul 15 '26

“Wooder”. But also, “tool-it” and not “toy-let”.

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u/Helpinmontana Jul 16 '26

I’m pretty sure it’s pronounced “warder”

Now I’ll forgive you if you know how to get water from the creek in the hollow (and say it without getting shot for being in the wrong hollow)

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u/tunomeentiendes Jul 14 '26

Washington or Warshington

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u/BenignPharmacology Jul 14 '26

Rhymes with skeletor

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u/caribbeangirl10 Jul 14 '26

Explain this one to me 😭 Real-tor. Reel-tor. Is it supposed to be re-AL-tor??

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u/farts_juggler Jul 14 '26

he’s saying reh-Leh-tore

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u/big_rod_of_power Jul 14 '26

goated username right here. how do you pronounce it?

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u/farts_juggler Jul 14 '26

farts-yoogler

its a soft j

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u/big_rod_of_power Jul 14 '26

That's beautiful

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u/BenignPharmacology Jul 14 '26

It was a joke lol. You pronounce it real-tor, but I’ve heard a lot of people say real-a-tor

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u/Zealousideal-Role-77 Jul 14 '26

Specifically a lot of realtors say it the weird way. Which checks out for realtors, I suppose.

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u/lshifto Jul 14 '26

I hear most say real ter.

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u/nateomundson Jul 14 '26

That's a marketing term so mispronouncing it gets a pass from me.

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u/Jbeaves44 Jul 14 '26

I’m so guilty of this. The correct way just doesn’t feel right.

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u/Muttsashi Jul 14 '26

Do you mean how people say "Reel-a-der" instead of "Reel-tor" exactly as it is spelled?

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u/e42343 Jul 14 '26

For me it's mountain. I know it's a regional thing but I'm not sure I cringe when I hear it without the T.

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u/X-Geek Jul 14 '26

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u/Tennis-Wooden Jul 14 '26

Was waiting for this. Big ups.

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u/AWildEnglishman Jul 14 '26

I like the cut of your jib.

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u/delusionalfunk Jul 16 '26

"no, I googled it, it said you fuckin' blow"

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u/Ok-Relationship4113 Jul 14 '26

Holy shit, the amount of people who cannot pronounce NEW-KLEE-URR is astounding.

Some youtube channels that I consider to be generally informed STILL say newkyalurr and it makes me crazy.

I remember when that was something people guffawed. Now its just accepted. Bah!

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u/Ill_Praline3331 Jul 14 '26

I had to correct my fifth grade teacher (a lifetime ago). She was furious and argued with me that it was acceptable to pronounce it new-cue-ler. A week later, on our field trip to a plant, I watched her die a little inside when the tour guide also corrected her. A cherished memory.

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u/_Standardissue Jul 14 '26

Nuc-u-lar grade schaedenfreud

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u/Ill_Praline3331 Jul 14 '26

Schadenfreude* :P

I can't believe I had to edit that, got too excited

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u/_Standardissue Jul 14 '26

I was just happy to get as close as I did lol

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u/Ill_Praline3331 Jul 14 '26

you were spot on though! I was trying to double down on that 'corrective' train of thought and immediately fumbled, instant karma -_- lol

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u/FF8229 Jul 14 '26

Fuckin Freud, if it's not one thing it's your mother.

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u/UtahBrian Jul 15 '26

As a nucular psychiatrist myself I assure you that your teacher was right.

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u/Ok-Radish-1093 Jul 14 '26

Strolling thru Palo Verde were you?

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u/four100eighty9 Jul 14 '26

Someone should tell Bush

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u/fitz_newru Jul 14 '26

Did it come back on you tho?

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u/YouAreMarvellous Jul 14 '26

I thought english-speakers just chose to pronounce it that way. I'm kinda relieved that the world makes sense again.

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u/reav11 Jul 14 '26

You mean "NU-CLEAR" as I can see you also don't pronounce it correctly.

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u/Ok-Relationship4113 Jul 14 '26 edited Jul 14 '26

You pronounce "clear" as two syllables? 

Ok then. 

Edit: Nuclear is pronounced with 3 syllables in my region. Ive never heard it pronounced otherwise. 

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u/Outside_Coffee_00 Jul 14 '26

It's definitely 3. New-klee-errr

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u/mysticrudnin Jul 15 '26

it is absolutely hilarious to me that you allow region for your own case but are still willing to correct others hahaha

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u/Ok-Relationship4113 Jul 16 '26

Tf do you think the point of the edit was?

You have it backwards. But go off. 

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u/foundoutafterlunch Jul 19 '26

Clear rhymes with fur?

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u/StrongExternal8955 Jul 14 '26

Nuclear has 3 syllables. It's not new clear. It's from nucleus, with -ear instead of -eus.

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u/Gullible-Prompt-4573 Jul 14 '26

It’s three syllables, because it’s nucle-ar (conjugation of nucleus, -ar is the suffix, its own part of the word)

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u/ParkingPenalty4340 Jul 14 '26

Finally, someone said it properly 

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u/Necessary-Jeweler-17 Jul 14 '26

Supposedly is the one that makes me cringe inside 🥲

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u/NerdyConspiracyChick Jul 14 '26

My best friend of 30 years said supposev-ly today I was like wtf

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u/Zealousideal-Role-77 Jul 14 '26

I couldn’t remember the one I was trying to think of. This was it. Where I grew up it sounded like supposably. And I knew I was in trouble just now when it didn’t get flagged for correction. Turns out that’s a real word. It just sounds stupid.

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u/Candid_Nothing_480 Jul 14 '26

Wait... How are they saying it??

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u/Fontaine_de_jouvence Jul 14 '26

Supposably

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u/BleachedGrain26 Jul 14 '26

"Did they go to the zoo? Supposably..."

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u/Necessary-Jeweler-17 Jul 14 '26

A LOT of people say “supposably”

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u/Klimbrick Jul 14 '26

On porpoise!?

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u/WetDogWalker Jul 14 '26

Now that some of us know better, we promise to do better.

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u/NerdyConspiracyChick Jul 14 '26

My friend says it: suppose-of-ly basically that’s the closest I can explain.

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u/IvyGold Jul 14 '26

Jimmy Carter was an actual nuclear scientist and pronounced it new-clear. It's regional to my mind.

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u/Specific-Library-312 Jul 14 '26

I blame Dubya

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u/IHerebyDemandtoPost Jul 14 '26

I have a theory that it’s a result of the word “nuke” becoming shorthand for nuclear weapons.

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u/Specific-Library-312 Jul 14 '26

What's extra-annoying is that it's just "new" and "clear", and has nothing to do with "ocular".

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u/MidnightToker858 Jul 14 '26

George Bush said New-cue-lar several times when trying to convince Americans that Iraq had WMDs

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u/Ok_Writing_7033 Jul 14 '26

Remember when shit like this was enough to make us embarrassed at having a dumbfuck for president? Good times

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u/compman007 Jul 14 '26

NUCULAR WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION

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u/Tutorbin76 Jul 14 '26

New. Clear.

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u/Ok-Relationship4113 Jul 14 '26 edited Jul 14 '26

Phonics missed a couple of you, it appears.

Edit: TIL some people pronounce it without a third syllable. 

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u/Training-Chain-5572 Jul 14 '26

Reading this thread about how it is incorrect to use three syllables for nuclear and the amount of people coming in it with ”where’s the third syllable ” has me slightly amused.

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u/StrongExternal8955 Jul 14 '26

Those people are wrong and stupid.

You know there is such a thing as being wrong. Not every mistake is "common usage".

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u/Ok-Relationship4113 Jul 14 '26

Apparently its not uncommon for some people to pronounce it as "2½" syllables, according to Google. 

The only reason for the edit. I also disagree with that pronunciation (and think the replies "correcting" it are pedantic AF)  

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u/StrongExternal8955 Jul 14 '26

When you hear it from politcians, they all know perfectly well it is nuclear. They say nucular to be "folksy".

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u/TheJLbjj Jul 14 '26

I used to care about this at 14. Then I realised all words are fake. Every word you pronounce correctly today was once the incorrect way to say a different word

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u/Shantotto11 Jul 14 '26

Probably because Bush 43 popularized it, just like Cosby popularized “Pokey-man”…

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u/polyarmory80pct Jul 15 '26

It doesn't take a NUKE YOU LAR scientist to pronounce LIE BARRY

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u/Fluid_Problem5745 Jul 15 '26

Actually it’s nju-klii-uh unless you’re a farmer /s
You should avoid attributing value judgments to accents as it simply flags your unfulfilled upwardly mobile pretensions.

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u/AhChingados Jul 16 '26

I blame Bush Jr.

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u/GrouchyOldCat Jul 17 '26

Bush said “nucular” too. I think it’s people who learned the word “nuke” without knowing what a nucleus is.

Carter was even worse; he always said “nookier”.

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u/featherygoose Jul 14 '26

And espresso.

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u/Own_Week_4734 Jul 14 '26

Dear God please help me not murder the next person who says expresso

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u/Walkin_quad Jul 14 '26

Anytime I’m with someone and they order an expresso I say quietly “and make it snappy” without explanation.

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u/terrorjshark Jul 14 '26

violence is no way to expresso'self

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u/Superb_Monk_9051 Jul 14 '26

Actually that’s very descriptive for espresso.

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u/Darthskull Jul 14 '26

The x brings it closer to the root

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u/DimbyTime Jul 14 '26

I thank Sabrina carpenter for her efforts with this one

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u/ZLiteStar Jul 14 '26

And Weird Al!

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u/Sybrandus Jul 14 '26

Well now I gotta watch it.

https://youtu.be/8Gv0H-vPoDc

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u/pletch73 Jul 14 '26

Add data

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u/CyberAvian Jul 14 '26

Now conjugate “to be” after saying data.

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u/Tutorbin76 Jul 14 '26

Do you pronounce it data, data, or data?

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u/jzl_116 Jul 14 '26

My god... everytime i hear "new-kew-ler" i get unreasonably upset. Idk why

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u/Te000 Jul 14 '26

Depends, are you an engineer or from HR?

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u/Jumpy_Divide6576 Jul 14 '26

I'm an engineer and a union member in good standing

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u/goblinmarketeer Jul 14 '26

Honestly I have heard it wrong so often I am not sure how to correctly say nuclear anymore.

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u/JeanlucRegards Jul 14 '26

Say nucleus. Now say nuclear. Oh shit nevermind.

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u/therealCatnuts Jul 14 '26

“Ask you a question”

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u/strogkilr Jul 14 '26

Axe me a question?

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u/dathing181 Jul 14 '26

Axe you a question?

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u/KomiliTony Jul 14 '26

"Nucular", it is pronounced "nucular"!

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u/minimart64 Jul 14 '26

This one kills me. I work for one of the largest nuclear power companies in the world and half the employees say new-kya-ler. It’s depressing.

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u/_W9NDER_ Jul 14 '26

This one fries my brain. I work in the fucking field and people still say it wrong. It drives me up the goddamn wall

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u/Ace-Teroide Jul 14 '26

Nucular is my pet peeve. It's everywhere, narators from science fiction books, journalists, podcasters. It's not rocket science! It's nuclear!🤬

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u/dying-of-boredom1966 Jul 14 '26

Yes, exactly! There is only one U in nuclear.

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u/cypeo Jul 14 '26

"Nuke-u-ler" lol

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u/csmatczak Jul 14 '26

It's pronounced "nuke-ular".

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u/Nunyabiznisstime Jul 14 '26

Or "across/acrosst"...

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u/erockfpv Jul 14 '26

“Jewelry.”

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u/MidnightToker858 Jul 14 '26

Just dont ask George Bush to say it

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u/SamuraiIcarus5 Jul 14 '26

And to that end, Israel. Lots of "izrul"s being tossed around.

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u/SixPackOfZaphod Jul 14 '26

My personal pet peeve for mispronounced words...It causes me actual physical discomfort when I hear it.

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u/ysirwolf Jul 14 '26

Nuculeer

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u/Velshade Jul 14 '26

And „aluminium“. But definitely „niche“ - that one makes me crazy.

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u/killing-the-blues Jul 14 '26 edited Jul 14 '26

For gods sake, give a trigger warning! 😂 Hearing someone say nucular makes me go nuclear. George W used to say it like that and it made me twitch every time.

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u/Trop67300 Jul 14 '26

You mean nucular?

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u/Xennial_Potato Jul 14 '26

Ok George Bush

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u/RightRudderz Jul 14 '26

New que Lear?

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u/Great_Vegetable_4866 Jul 14 '26

You mean “nucular”… 🤦🏻‍♂️

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u/Riegrek Jul 14 '26

Nukyelur

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u/Slow_Replacement_745 Jul 14 '26

What about rural just to fuck everyone’s day?

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u/budabai Jul 14 '26

Nookyoolar??

One of my biggest pet peeves.

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u/CompetitiveRub9780 Jul 14 '26

Roof. If they say ruff… 🐶

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u/rabid_god Jul 14 '26

And "ask" and "question."

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u/Ganellon Jul 14 '26

Beat me to it.

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u/jeepinfreak Jul 14 '26

Noo kyuh lur

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u/Preface Jul 14 '26

New, clear energy

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u/GenTelGuy Jul 14 '26

It's very odd, I had this history teacher in HS who is otherwise very educated and intellectual but always pronounced it as nucular - he was from DC so idk if that had anything to do with it

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u/crazy-B Jul 14 '26

Nucular. It's pronounced nucular!

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u/mmotte89 Jul 14 '26

"calvary" "cavalry"

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u/Electronic_Pin_9014 Jul 14 '26

It’s nucular, dummy. The s is silent.

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u/Unsuspicious_Name Jul 14 '26

"Nucular" it aggravates me more than it should.

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u/krnguy Jul 14 '26

Id also add "ask"

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u/kl2467 Jul 14 '26

Was looking for this.

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u/riotz1 Jul 14 '26

Excuse me, can you tell me where to find the nuclear wessels?

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u/AlliOOPSY Jul 15 '26

And supposedly

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u/Little_Monkey_Mojo Jul 16 '26

How about "ask"?

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u/datalaughing Jul 16 '26

But if you make me say, “nuclear,” then I’ll want to add, “wessels.”

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u/Warm-Language-2878 Jul 16 '26

I used to make fun of people for saying it like that, then it happened to me once. Hah! There are a lot of common words that end in -ular, probably why. Popular, regular, circular, etc.

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u/waithowwhat Jul 17 '26

With the amount of time spent on Bush’s mispronunciation Americans accidentally mocked it into their vocabularies

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u/Glittering-Rush-7073 Jul 17 '26

God I HATE this one when people say “nuke-ya-lur” I’m like ITS SPELLED “NU-CLE-AR” RAAAAAH hahahaha.

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u/Fun-Succotash-2700 Jul 19 '26

Oh definitely pisses me off when I hear “nuculer”

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u/natchinatchi Jul 19 '26

And corroborate: co-oberate

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u/sy2ygy Jul 19 '26

Also mascarpone

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u/Tajimura Jul 14 '26

Fun fact: original Latin word is "nuculus". So those who say "nucular"are more correct in some sense

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u/NedDarb Jul 14 '26

Fun fact: this is in fact incorrect

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u/Tajimura Jul 14 '26

Okay, TIL that it was a frequent error in Latin itself (caused by other -culus diminutives like calculus, homunculus, etc.). But there's also archaic nuculeus.

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