[EveningStar]

My 8th grade science teacher also said noo-kyu-ler.

Noo-kyu-ler has become an accepted, albeit substandard, alternative just as the equally cringe inducing Illinoiz has for Illinois.

[onyx]

On the LIVE thread for Sarah's speech, I posted that my teachers mispronounced the word and that several of us likely grew up with the wrong pronunciation. Then I realized that I do say it right according to most elites:(nōō'klē-ər, nyōō'-).

I was happy when dear pillut48 posted on that same thread that both pronunciations are correct, but she also pointed out that Sarah was likely having fun with the very lame stream media because she pronounced it correctly too.

[FreeReign]

Noo-kyu-ler has become an accepted, albeit substandard, alternative just as the equally cringe inducing Illinoiz has for Illinois.

It has been pronounced "nukular" by many for a long time. The father of the H-bomb, Edward Teller pronounced it "nukular" as did Dwight Eisenhower.

usnews.com:Elites mocked former President Jimmy Carter—and George W. Bush long after him—when he drawled the word nuclear into a funny-sounding "nukular" and "nukeer." That he'd served on a nuclear sub in the Navy made no difference to his critics. And neither did the fact that two other prominent Americans, former President Dwight Eisenhower and Edward Teller, the father of the H-bomb, also said "nukular." Now comes a new book that defends them. In Physics for Future Presidents, Prof. Richard Muller of the University of California says the pronunciation "has been a tradition at some of our weapons labs since World War II." He says it derives from the "combination of 'nuke' with the ending '-ular' inspired by similar words such as spectacular, popular, and molecular.

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