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To: DaveLoneRanger

It's NU-CLEE-UR!

I agree with you, but Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2006 and The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition has it both ways.

noo-klee-er, nyoo- or, by metathesis, -kyuh-ler


1,194 posted on 01/28/2008 7:00:07 PM PST by higgmeister
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To: higgmeister

i wonder how many people say real-a-tor for re-al-tor, and nobody cares, but when President Bush uses his Texas pronunciation of nucular so many people complain.


1,277 posted on 01/28/2008 7:04:49 PM PST by maica (Romney '08)
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