There is only one "u" in "nuclear"

[BCDisneyFanatic]

I hate jew-ler-y...it's jew-el-ry.

Actually, the British (and Canadian) spelling is jewellery, and the extra syllable is pronounced (making it jewel -ler -y). Maybe your friends are trying to put on a posh British accent?

 

[Golf4food]

Also, Libary - it's LIBRARY

Everything you need to know can be learned from Scrubs (watch it to the end, it is relevant to the topic:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ezF_JO8agR0

 

[PrincessKsMom]

Illinois -- silent S!!!! Not Illinoise

Also, fif instead of fifth.

Asked -- axed

 

[STWolfe]

I hate it when coaches for little leaage teams say pitchers instead of pictures! When I was in first grade my dad thought it was something for pitchers so I wore jeans to the "pitcher" (picture)

UGH!

 

[blu3d3vil]

Apparently some people have old-timers and all-timers disease.

 

[joviroxx]

Oh, another one. When people add an "s" to somewhere or anywhere.. They say somewheres. I dont know if its regional or not but it makes me batty.

 

[shortbun]

President Bush must have taught her how to say it because he pronounces it the same way

I was thinking last night, "has she NOT been paying ANY attention for the last eight years?" My 13yo son said, "she wants us to take her seriously about being an energy expert?" I though she did an ok job last night. My son said she '(a word he's really not supposed to say') He got evil eye from me.

 

[PrincessKsMom]

Apparently some people have old-timers and all-timers disease.

My mom actually says Al-Heimers

 

[WhatATreat]

It annoys me when people add the letter "x" to words it does not belong in, as in "expecially" instead of "especially".

I will cop to "Feb-you-ary" myself, but honestly I don't think I know anybody who actually says "Feb-roo-ary".

 

[LovinPooh]

Its batteries.... not 'bat trees'

 

[just4today]

I don't like it when people say "I've got ____" when they could just say "I have _________."

"Got" is misused and overused.

 

[LoraJ]

I can't pronounce "Caramel" correctly. I grew up saying carmel.

I have a co-worker who sent us an email once to be sure to "put our tapes in the draw." And I responded "Drawer" and he said responded "no draw". He seriously didn't know it was drawer because he's been saying it as "draw" his whole life.

 

[yeartolate]

Pronounciation, is not grammer.... just saying.

You meant to do that, right?

 

[TomLovesBecky]

Jimmy Carter, who was a NUKULER engineer pronounced it the same way. I can overlook it. Of course, its one of the few things I can overlook about Jimmy Carter.

I had never heard of such a thing so I looked it up and found this:
Dear Mr. Fialka:

I enjoyed your story about new efforts to recycle nuclear fuel. It is definitely the right thing to do; our current once-through cycle only extracts about 3-5% of the potential energy of the initial fuel loads.

One myth correction, however. President Carter was a submarine officer, but he was not a nuclear engineer.

He graduated from the US Naval Academy in June 1946 (he entered in 1943 with the class of 1947, but his class was in a war-driven accelerated 3 year program) with an undesignated bachelor of science degree. Even if the Naval Academy had offered a majors program for his class, it is unlikely that it would have included Nuclear Engineering as a option - after all, the Manhattan Project was a dark secret for most of his time at Annapolis.

After graduation, Jimmy Carter served as a surface warfare officer for a two years and then volunteered for the submarine force. He served in a variety of billets, including engineer officer of diesel submarines and qualified to command submarines.

In November 1952, he began a three month temporary duty assignment at the Naval Reactor branch. He started nuclear power school (a six month course of study that leads to operator training) in March, 1953. In July 1953, his father passed away and he resigned his commission to run the family peanut farm. He was discharged from active duty on 9 October, 1953. According to an old friend of mine who served as Rickover's personnel officer at Naval Reactors, LT Carter did not complete nuclear power school because of the need to take care of business at home.

The prototype for the USS Nautilus was completed in Idaho in May 1953, so LT Carter might have had some opportunity to see it in action before leaving the Navy. However, the USS Nautilus did not go to sea until January 17, 1955, so there is no possibility that he ever qualified to stand watch on a nuclear powered submarine.

He never experienced the incredible gift of being able to operate a power plant that was so clean that it could run inside a sealed submarine, so reliable that it could power that submarine even deep under the Arctic ice, and so energy dense that the submarine could operate for years without new fuel.

When I think about the 1976 campaign and the importance of the energy issue at that time, I cannot help but wonder why Jimmy Carter's promoters made such a big deal about his nuclear expertise. My wonder turns to cynicism when I think about the policies that his administration imposed and the damage that they did to the growth of the industry just at a time when we most needed a vibrant new energy industry player.

Best regards,

Rod Adams
Editor, Atomic Insights
www.atomicinsights.blogspot.com
www.atomicinsights.com

 

[troobabiee7]

Last night I kept wondering when NUCULER became a word

 

[*Fantasia*]

It wasn't about misprounciation.. it was more like using the wrong word.. more like- it doesn't even exist.

There was one time when I was working at an eyeglass place, I was explaining to this old couple the features and benefits of the frame. They kept saying "ok".. "oh ok..." as they were acknowleging me to let me know they hear me. After I got home, I just realized what I just said to them.. I said the plastic earpiece was "removable." Instead, I used the word "tangable" - tanga-ble(tangal-means remove in Filipino language). But the old couple was listening so closely and they thought I was using an opthalmic word. But they didn't realize that it wasn't even an English word.. neither did I until I got home.. Did my story made any sense to anyone?? If not.. oh well.. it was funny anyways..

 

[nosoupforyou]

It wasn't about misprounciation.. it was more like using the wrong word.. more like- it doesn't even exist.

There was one time when I was working at an eyeglass place, I was explaining to this old couple the features and benefits of the frame. They kept saying "ok".. "oh ok..." as they were acknowleging me to let me know they hear me. After I got home, I just realized what I just said to them.. I said the plastic earpiece was "removable." Instead, I used the word "tangable" - tanga-ble(tangal-means remove in Filipino language). But the old couple was listening so closely and they thought I was using an opthalmic word. But they didn't realize that it wasn't even an English word.. neither did I until I got home.. Did my story made any sense to anyone?? If not.. oh well.. it was funny anyways..

No, that didn't make any sense.

 

[*Fantasia*]

No, that didn't make any sense.

hahaha.. that's okay.. sowwiee.. i guess you have to be filipino to understand it.. ooops i think i'm the only one here who is filipino.. my bad, i don't even know why i posted it.. i guess you have to be there to understand just exactly what happened.. sorry folks.. just disregard.

 

[*Fantasia*]

ok.. let me try it again... i didn't realize until i got home that i was using filipino word/s at work.. the couple just assumed when i was explaining to them the features and benefits of the frame that i was using an opthalmic word/s , so they were just nodding their head and saying.. "ok.. oh ok.." little did they know that it is not even an english word!

ok... does this make sense now? i hope so.. i just find it funny.

 

[PrincessKsMom]

Fantasia:

Made complete sense to me. You were using a Filipino word (tangable) which means "removeable". However, the older couple thought you were using a "medical" term and were probably embarassed to seem uneducated.

I have a co-worker who speaks Spanish and I'm amazed how, during a personal conversation, she can randomly speak both languages (a few words in English with a Spanish word thrown in or visa versa. It really is something to hear!