Question: How Do We Pronounce The Ultimate Weapon? Nook or NUKE?

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[Recovering_Democrat]

This COULD be the biggest, most controversial debate of Operation Enduring Freedom: How do you pronounce this word:

NUCLEAR

Is it "NOOK-lee-er" or "NUK-lee-er"? Just wondering. :)
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[John Jorsett]

Rhymes with "spook".

[Pylot]

It is correctly pronounced NEW CLEAR.

Used to drive me crazy when Jimmy Carter, who was allegedly a Nuclear Physicist used to pronounce the work NOOK U LEAR.

You have the word from the authority. Me

Now go forth and enunciate!

[Larousse2]

Nuke: newk.

Favorite bumpersticker: "More Nukes, less kooks!"

[TheBigB]

Depends on where you are. If you're in Afghanistan, it's pronounce thusly:

"Oh, sh*t!"

[null and void]

NEW-cue-ler as in Bar-bee-que-ler

[UB355]

I'm not going to post on this go around.

[LonePalm]

How about this?

BIG Bang!
Garde la Foi, mes amis! Nous nous sommes les sauveurs de la République! Maintenant et Toujours!
(Keep the Faith, my friends! We are the saviors of the Republic! Now and Forever!)
LoanPalm, le Républicain du verre cassé (The Broken Glass Republican)

[RadicalRik]

As in "glows in the dark foor a long long time" spook!

"They're scary and they're spoooky...."
They're way too bright to loooky..."
They'll make you glow they're noookie..."
They're our Noook-lee-er fam-il-leeeee!"

[Charles Henrickson]

The correct pronunciation is:

Nu-cle-ar (three syllables).

A perpetually mispronounced word, like unto:

Re-al-tor (not "real-a-tor").

In-te-gral (not "in-tri-cal," which is not a product pushed by Paul Harvey but rather a mistaken cross between "integral" and "intricate").

[GVNR]

CRAP!

All along I thought it was nookie-lee-her..

What?
Ohhh!
Wrong subject...

Never mind.

[Arthur McGowan]

Jimmy Carter did not pronounce it "noo-u-lear" or "nucular." He pronounced it "nookyar." But the current Congress and Executive Branch are full of people who say "nucular." They should all be rounded up and given a full-day seminar to be drilled in the proper pronunciation.

[Clifdo]

I really love this type thread - it brings out the best in everybody!!

[Born to Conserve]

Jimmy Carter! Wasn't he some sort of nukeyaller fississist or sompin?

[gumbo]

Re-al-tor (not "real-a-tor").

And then there's "jew-ler-y" instead of jewelry (jool-ry).

The anti-semites really love that one.

[Born to Conserve]

Correction:

I think J.C. pronounced it nookyilla.

[avg_freeper]

Both are wrong.

As Homer points out:
"No, No, Its Nuke-yu-lar"

[Fulbright]

You can use the code words B61-11 instead. Works for me.

[Lee Enfield]

Pronounce the ultimate weapon? Don't know, but it's spelled PMS.

[Aztech]

If it were Nook then I suppose that Paul Newman played in a movie called "Cool Hand Look"