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01-18-2007, 06:59 PM

Bill Westphal writes:

> BTW, a lot of people laugh at 43 about his pronunciation of the word
> "nuclear", and I did too (quietly) when I joined the nuclear navy and
> noticed some highly educated people doing the same, until I figured
> out that's the legitimate pronunciation on the east coast, or at least
> in parts of it.... never thought I'd be defending him!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfa_class_submarine

That's interesting. What do these people say when they discuss
nucleation and that the nucleus of an atom does thus and so. It seems
to me to be much like people who cannot say length or strength, saying
lenth and strenth instead. I'm not sure they have the musical ear to
discern the difference.

Jobst Brandt

01-18-2007, 06:59 PM	#30 (permalink)
jobst.brandt@stanfordalumni.org Guest Posts: n/a	Re: OT Interesting video Bill Westphal writes: > BTW, a lot of people laugh at 43 about his pronunciation of the word > "nuclear", and I did too (quietly) when I joined the nuclear navy and > noticed some highly educated people doing the same, until I figured > out that's the legitimate pronunciation on the east coast, or at least > in parts of it.... never thought I'd be defending him! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfa_class_submarine That's interesting. What do these people say when they discuss nucleation and that the nucleus of an atom does thus and so. It seems to me to be much like people who cannot say length or strength, saying lenth and strenth instead. I'm not sure they have the musical ear to discern the difference. Jobst Brandt