[chimera]

Sally Quinn gigged Palin for that on O’Reilly the other night. Laura Ingram called her on it (”pettiness”), but in a way it does distract from the message. If you're gonna walk the walk and talk the talk, at least pronounce the words correctly. It will save us having to defend an obvious error.

[presently no screen name]

It will save us having to defend an obvious error.

If pronunciation is something you feel the NEED to defend, well then, by all means go for it. Little minds need something to keep them busy.

[digger48]

I heard it.

I loved it.

And I think she pronounced it that way on purpose. It p!sses off all the right people.

If she had ever pronounced it that way before, it’d have been looped for days on the Obamedia.

Nope....IMO, she meant to say nucular.

[Josh Painter]

Strange, the libs never criticized Jimmy Carter for say nuke-u-ler (which he did all the time), and he was a nuke-u-ler engineer.

- JP

[onyx]

For the love of God, people need to get over this.

BOTH pronunciations are correct.

LINK

nu·cle·ar (nōō'klē-ər, nyōō'-)

Usage Note: The pronunciation (nōō'kyə-lər), which is generally considered incorrect, is an example of how a familiar phonological pattern can influence an unfamiliar one. The usual pronunciation of the final two syllables of this word is (-klē-ər), but this sequence of sounds is rare in English. Much more common is the similar sequence (-kyə-lər), which occurs in words like particular, circular, spectacular, and in many scientific words like molecular, ocular, and vascular.

[BibChr]

When Palin has the MSM doing all they can to hang the "Quayle" sign on her, she doesn't need to give them ammo. Obviously I care more about what she'd do with nu-cle-ar power and firepower, than about how she pronounces the word — but why feed the caricature?

Also: it makes me sad to see conservatives defend shoddy speech just because it's someone we love. Do you tell your kids that, if they object to your correction of their pronunciation? My late mother corrected both my pronunciation and my grammar, and I'm grateful to her for it.

Leave the left fuming about what you say, Sarah; not sniggering about how ineptly you say it.