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| Check it out.
nucular also appears in the Wikipedia Free Encypedia. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nucular I thought this was particularly interesting (cut from the Wikipedia).
It has also been used by British Prime Minister Tony Blair.. Sue |
Here is a link that might be useful: The Urban Dictionary
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| At least Wikipedia and Urban Dictionary aren't authoritative. I think it'll be a good long time before Oxford or Webster accept 'nukular.' |
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| I just cringe when I hear that unfortunate pronunciation. It sounds so ignorant. :-/ |
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| fishes, I agree and I forgot to add to my post though that it's not in a 'real' dictionary. Jen, It does really get my goat though when folks argue that aint is a word, thus acceptable and correct to use. They say, "It's in the dictionary." What they fail to read or realize, is that it is nonstandard or slang. Sue |
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| So if a group of presidents say "warsh" instead of wash,it will be heretofore incluced with an r? Dumbing down is alive and well. |
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| They should check a real dictionary out of the "liberry". |
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| Oh, goody! This is one of my favourite pastimes - mispronounced words and faulty grammar! My absolute favourite is "anticlimatic" instead of "anticlimactic." Anticlimatic implies that you're against the weather. Which is really weird. |
Here is a link that might be useful: a houseplants forum discussion of grammar & vocab
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| Oh, gawd yes! I hate weather! ;-D These drive me bonkers: "irregardless"
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| Okay ... be nice, some of us aint got fancy edumacations, and we dont mean to dumb down the language. We jest talk this way ... "irregardless" I still like you upper ed ladies (and gents). I might have to refer to the dictionary more than once a day, but that is okay because it gives me 50 cent words to use. Peace and love ... |
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| Hey, now... only 50 cents? My words are at a buck now. Of course, that's Canadian :) |
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| I don't think much about words that aren't pronounced correctly..heck,DH has a PHD in chemistry but says "warsh" because he grew up in Ohio and that's the way it was pronounced where he was growing up..in fact I used to say it that way. BUT..changing a dictionary is a whole other can of worms. |
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| Oh, but it's not a real dictionary - it's an online sorta-kinda-dictionary that anyone can submit a definition to. |
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