Why does Pres. Bush insist on mispronouncing the word "nuclear"?
150845
Simple.\nHe has this thing about killing\nNew-killer\nHis record is evident.\nHe is not interested in new-clear. Clearing up the mess.
418593
you forgot to mention that he is ignoring Isreal who has nuclear power too!!!\n\nby  the way there isn`t any Arab country who has nuclear power\nIran isn`t arab & Bush claimed that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction just to invade it for the oil\n\nhe is just showing off with his power to hide his weakness which was uncovered when 9/11 happened
831339
It's called hyperbole.\n\nClinton is stating how closely he feels Israel is a friend and ally who must be supported, and he's colorfully illustrating how strongly he feels about it.\n\nHe wouldn't really pick up a rifle and go to a trench.  Just like people don't literally mean they will plant a foot in your buttocks when they say things like "kick your @ss"\n\nEdit:  Apparently one of the posters above thinks taking a deferrment is the same as leaving the country.  That puts almost the entire Bush administration in the same boat as Clinton, along with most of the right-wing talking heads.\n\nThat person also believes that Oxford is in Canada.  Maybe he/she should post a question in the geography section, since Clinton didn't actually spend time in Canada during the Viet Nam conflict.
1126498
They'll wait until election time. Either this year for Congress, or 2008 for the Oval Office.\n\nAnd how long will it take him to learn to pronounce the name?\n\nTwo choices-\nThe same amount of time it took Dan Quayle to learn to spell Potato- what, 46 years?\n\nOr for H.W. to correctly pronoun Saddam. I don't think he ever mastered that one, did he?
908563
he obviously doesn't.  He is smart, but he talks like....durr.  if he was a put on he wouldn't talk with such bad grammar.  Some people judge him by the way he says things....now if that kind of judgement isn't just dumb I don't know what is.  I onceheard someone say he was stupid because he doesn't say "nuclear' right.  yeah, I want someone like that voting for president...think about that...people that dumb are actually voting...oh god.
317972
Very rarely does the word "GOOD" and "PRESIDENT" go together. Thats a toughie!!
368137
First, the pronunciation "nucular" is considered non-standard by Americans.  You hear about it because some prominent people have used it this way. (Bush-bashers like to act like he came up with it on his own.  They also somehow have failed to notice that Jimmy Carter --who was a nuclear engineer in the Navy!!-- has always said it that way too!  I'm also told Eisenhower said it this way.)\n\nSecond, it is 'stoopid' to assume something about someone' intelligence from their accent, regionalisms, use of 'nonstandard forms' or even outright personal mispronunciations.  There are brilliant folk who 'sound like hicks' to others of us, and people of quite "refined speech" who are dim bulbs.\n\nFinally, this sort of inversion of sounds (the linguistic term is "metathesis") is a fairly natural occurrence in languages of all sorts.  (I used to think this sort of thing was "wrong", until I studied Hebrew and learned about the regular metathesis of certain verb forms [in this case, reflected in the spelling].) There are lots of reasons for this, though perhaps the main one is that the inversion of sounds makes it much easier to pronounce.\n\nA fun example is seen in the way young children often do this, as in saying 'pisghetti' for 'spaghetti', or my own daugher's 'chicken' for 'kitchen', but adults do it too.  Some result in dialectal or nonstandard forms (e.g., saying /ax/ for the word "ask", though this is actually a very old variant, reflected in Chaucer!).  Some are widely accepted, sometimes even THE standard pronunciation (e.g., saying /comf-ter-ble/ for "comfortable".  In fact, if not for this sort of inversion we'd still be saying  'brid' rather than the (corrupted?) form 'bird', and 'thrid' instead of 'third'!  It also accounts for why we say "tornado" though the word is derived from Spanish "tronada".\n\nIn the case of 'nuclear', the ending -ular is much more common in English, and there is a tendency to adopt words to sounds and patterns elsewhere in the language.  But even more basic than that -- 'nucular' allows you to use two "back vowels" /oo/ and /uh/ (i.e., vowel-sounds made in the back of the throat), which is easier than switching to the front vowel /ee/.
11940
He doesn't know how to speak properly and he thinks he's being more "common" if he pronounces it wrong.  Look at him during the presidential debates - he leaned on the podium to look more common as opposed to standing behind it as John Kerry did.
670541
I would also venture to say that "atomic" is much less prone to mispronounciation that "nuclear" (or, as I have heard, "nuculer" and "nucler", although that last was in certain parts of Tennessee and the movie "Dr. Strangelove").
531390
Interesting question.  Let's see.\n\nTruman used the first nuclear weapons on civilian targets.  He then presided over our entry into the first Cold War police action in Korea that is still not resolved.\n\nBush pronounces nuclear the same way as Jimmy Carter.  He has NEVER VETOED A SPENDING BILL.  He has not asked Congress to pass the FairTax bill.  He does not communicate well.  But his daughters are hot.\n\nSo take your pick.
87588
people like to call him a dummy and an idiot. But no one gets to be President of this great nation being one of those.  He is a very intelligent man.  Hes very down to earth when he speaks and doesnt pronouce the word "nuclear" right.  But people try to find fault with the stupidest thigngs.
776344
you are so funny.  everybody in this country say every word in the english vocab same dont they?........ grow up.  Kerry said he looks across the "CH"asm  like chocolate, when its pronounced "K"asm.  I can go on and on on how different people say things differently.\n\nsure is funny how dems have problem with the way people pronounce words but then say they arent elitists. You have to say everything like we do but no.... were not elite...
534402
Most people cannot pronounce the word nuclear.  In my experience in broadcasting I have only met a handful of people (non-professionals) who even know how to pronounce it.  If the media had not jumped on his mispronunciation, most American s would not have even known his pronunciation was incorrect.\n\nNu-clear. (Only two syllables)\n\nnot\n\nNu-Kle-ur
388886
He is still screwing with Korea, and there is not much said about that??? And now Iran, Bush is still devolping nucular weapons and you have to wonder why?? He doesn't want anyone else to have them but he is making them! He is a war President in a war we should not be in! We still haven't caught bin laden, whats wrong with that picture. I don't think he really cares lon as he gets what he wants!!!
441041
It was in spanish and Bush can't speak spanish.
885359
Yes, and how many different stories has he contrived to try and explain it off. First it was meant for Bush, no apology. Then it was I misquoted from my notes, no apology. Then it was someone else changed my notes, I misspoke and apologize kinda. \n\nhttp://blog.360.yahoo.com/blog-pOypG0szd7Pv_X1rQxw_4qCWpA--?cq=1
453616
Spell WHAT?  "Spell correctly"?  "Spell Bush"?\n\nWhy can't apparent 'Bush haters' use correct grammar? \n\nMost importantly, why can't you intelligently discuss ISSUES?\n\nBest wishes.\n\nP.S.  Can you find the grammatical error in this?