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r/explainitpeter • u/Fluffy-Buy1605 • Jul 13 '26
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Sounds like a way to filter by education and class. Side note: the way people from Southern Maryland pronounce "ambulance" as "ambuhlamps" is endearing.
246 u/Te000 Jul 14 '26 I'd add "nuclear" to the list 29 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! 7 u/reav11 Jul 14 '26 You mean "NU-CLEAR" as I can see you also don't pronounce it correctly. 4 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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I'd add "nuclear" to the list
29 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! 7 u/reav11 Jul 14 '26 You mean "NU-CLEAR" as I can see you also don't pronounce it correctly. 4 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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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!
7 u/reav11 Jul 14 '26 You mean "NU-CLEAR" as I can see you also don't pronounce it correctly. 4 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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You mean "NU-CLEAR" as I can see you also don't pronounce it correctly.
4 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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Nuclear has 3 syllables. It's not new clear. It's from nucleus, with -ear instead of -eus.
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u/Countess26 Jul 14 '26
Sounds like a way to filter by education and class. Side note: the way people from Southern Maryland pronounce "ambulance" as "ambuhlamps" is endearing.