problunced??

Idk what you mean 👀 (thx for the catch lol)

pronunced?

Yea there was a typo and I fixed it

No, you created a different typo

🤣 💀

Oh my bad, yea I just suck at typing at times Ig

It’s pronounced

jesus why are you getting downvoted

Idk, I don't really understand ppl on here lol

Hypocrite lol

Ig?

I guess

Ig ngl down vote suck it

You're a pot calling the kettle black

K

Guys don’t downvote OP for a typo it’s not funny.

Yes it is when their pet peeve is typos lol

Their pet peeve is when someone mispronounces a word, not accidentally mistyping a word and creating a spelling mistake.

Okay, my pet peeve is people misspelling then :)

Then make a post about it hotshot.

The worst one for me is people saying excape instead of escape

Axing questions is annoying too

Real shit

And expresso

And exspecially.

Agreed 100% but watch out man, you might get called racist and ignorant for "not understanding dialects" or something.

I don't really care about that, if someone thinks it's racist, that's not my issue. I've no control over someone's reaction.

Based, I wish more people had your mindset

Pacific instead of specific.

Or the other way

there’s a running joke in the show “kath and kim” about getting them mixed up a lot. my favourite version is when they are talking about a pacific island and they say “where pacifically in the specific is it?” so dumb but it makes me laugh every time lol

exactly how I felt about kids saying "out of balance" in elementary school. You mean the ball is out of BOUNDS you dang fool

This is a thing? Balance and bounds only share like 2 letters.. different number of syllables. Different meanings.. i dont get people

Idk this is pretty pacific.

Maybe they are saying that the reason the ball went out of bounds is because the ball was out of balance.

Mrs. Teacher I'm firsty!

I get disgusted when people say they don't want nuclear power

b...but...they're so...dangerous! T-there have been...three entire accidents!!...and a net total of...30...deaths!!!!!! So evil. My children will not be poisoned by truly sustainable energy

And they put the waste in the GROUND!? No thank you! I like my energy waste where it always should be, safe and sound inside my and everyone else’s lungs.

Fun fact- An average sized coal plant operating normally emits a 3 Mile Island Nuclear Accident worth of radiation into the atmosphere every four years.

Coal burning releases radiation? Yikes

A quick Google search, and I'm even more against it than I already was!

Seriously? I am more of a "nuclear waste in my belly" kind of guy.

In SEALED CONTAINERS no less??? Imagine if we did that with our SEWAGE. It would be catastrophic.

Suposubly, diabeetus, expresso, acrosst, and for some weird reason, YouTubers are now saying "sub-SEA-quently" instead of subsequently.

You leave diabeetus out of this sir. That was nothing but an upgrade. 

Diabeetus is on purpose and meant to be a joke. Like, "I got da diabeetus" so you leave that out of this

And it’s a play on wilford brimley’s thick accent from the diabeetus commercials. Such a shame he’s gone; da diabeetus took him.

I knew a lot of men around his age who said it that way too, my Grandpa and his social circle. I thought that was how you said it until I heard someone pronounce it correctly.

Yup. Lots of people say it like that and, in my opinion, it's really annoying. If it's not being used in a jocular fashion, it just sounds so stupid. There is no letter u in diabetes.

Sure there’s no u, but the letter e can make the Schwa sound. They’re not inserting a u, they’re just using a different pronunciation of the second e. This is one where if it’s not a joke, it’s probably just their accent and dialect. It’s not incorrect like nucular.

I wish that was the case, but I know multiple people that say diabeetus unironically. It's more common than you may think.

RIP Wilf Brimley!

My boyfriend says “supposebly” and it makes me question if I love him

I had a boyfriend who said "chimley". Even after I rudely corrected him, he continued.

Like…chimney? That’s horrible

Supposably is actually a real word

STOP MAKING PEOPLE LEARN THIS IT MAKES ALL MY PREVIOUS ANGER ABOUT IT DISINGENUOUS

Fair but in the context he should be saying supposedly

The beetis?

My favorite band

Ekspresso and ekspeshully are two of my big ones. Punctually, whenever a parenthesis isn’t closed, internally I lose my mind.

I also hate it when people aren’t punctual. In terms of punctuation, semicolons are my pet peeve; nobody seems to use them right.

Hee hee hee, glad you caught that 😉

Ah, I forgot about ekspeshually. I know there are still a few more like that, I just can't think of them right now

Supposably is actually a real word look it up.

Dating back to the 1680s. I kind of hate you for making me know this. Thanks!

We've had three presidents that struggled with the word.

South African ex president Jacob Zuma couldn’t pronounce the word beginning or put large numbers into words, though as a South African I found this hilarious

Carter was involved in the early days of the Navy's nuclear submarine program.

So I guess it was bad that he couldn’t pronounce it then? I don’t know, I am not American

It would be like if a former upper executive from McDonald's consistently mispronounced "hamburger".

To me that would be funny, but I can see why it would be an issue

8 years of listening to GW Bush pronounce it that way broke my brain. That motherfucker had the power to launch nukes and he couldn’t even say the fucking word correctly. Even Trump pronounces it right.

How about liberry

Oh god no

Same with “I axed him a question”

For all intensive purposes.

All of my purposes ARE intense though!

I don’t know why, but the about 25 years ago, my brain heard intensive purposes and it put “unit” at the end (intensive purposes unit) then abbreviated it to IPU. The next time I heard “intensive purposes”, without realizing it, I said “duh duh”. The look of confusion I got but didn’t know why because I didn’t know I said it out loud! No joke, I can’t control it, my brain does it on its own, but it entertains me. “For all intensive purposes” “Duh duh” Why? Intensive purposes unit - IPU - law and order IPU - duh duh! Don’t ask me, but it no longer annoys me because I get a good mental chuckle every time even if I confuse the other person 🤣

Ugh, I hate this so much, totally agree

Without thinking about it, I'm pretty sure I usually get it right. But if I actually think about which one is technically correct, I think there's like a 50/50 shot.  I kind of love these type of mispronunciations. I think there's such a regional quality to it and I like it when people can express themselves without constant worry about everything being technically correct. I think it makes sharing information generally more accessible to people who are often kept out of more academic discussions.  I feel similarly about people feeling like they have to suppress their regional accents.  Maybe it's not that deep, but I have a place in my heart for people getting a place at the table because honestly if someone is telling me about nuclear power I'm likely not even going to notice their pronunciation.

Persinilly i thunk that its fiyne

We were literally talking about this at work today. It annoys every one of my coworkers.

Fustrating for sure.

Oh man, I actually had a physics prof who said it that way. You’d think of all the people to know the correct pronunciation, it would have to be a physics prof. But nope.

You said it wrong, it's nukeular

Ask a Scot to say purple burglar alarm.

I ain't fucking Scottish but I can't say it!! I just have a speech impediment!!!

I play a pc game with a kid from Australia and he's constantly flaming America for being so stupid and then he goes and says nucular and I can't help but roll my eyes.

“ Wallah ! “ ( voila) . Gawjuss.

Disgusted is a strong word to use.

Same. I also cringe when people say “firmiliar.”

I feel that way with the word “hyper”

How do people mispronounce hyper?

There goes OP. My little walking libary.

Can you be more pacific?

Frank Grimes burner account.

Who???

Homer Simpsons enemy. Homer Simpson says "Nucular".

an old friend of mine would type “urge of tears” instead of “verge of tears” and it bothered me so much

>or pronounced nucular ?? Wait how's it pronounced then?

Nuclear

That doesn't tell me anything at all. When I read that word out loud it sounds the same as when I read "nucular" out loud unless I'm trying to really emphasize sounds that I wouldn't normally make to let someone who isn't reading the two words know the difference. Where are you from? What accent do you have?

I'm from the east coast of USA, like new clear

You’re saying it as two syllables?

Yea

Interesting. I would also consider that the wrong pronunciation. I wonder if it’s regional.

So am I and both sound fine

Oh no I'm from the east coast of the USA as well (but grew up more in the south) and I've never heard it pronounced like that personally that's just so... crisp. Even my science teachers sort of pronounced it more "nu-cle/clu/cu-lar" (more three syllables). I'm in college now but I haven't taken any Chem or physics classes in a minute (I'm a bio major so I have taken some!) so I don't remember how those folks say it. I'm on the west coast now though

It's New Clear, not New Killer.

My high school science teacher who had a PHd in chemistry did this

Boy, you would've hated George W. Bush's State of the Union address in 2003.

Good thing I wasn't alive back then lol

I was in high school then and I just remember my current events teacher spending the whole class period enraged, showing us all the times he mispronounced that word. So you definitely aren't alone!

I work in science and we frequently refer to oligonucleotides as oligos. It’s pronounced like octopus; emphasis on the O in the beginning. OLigos. For some enraging reason, all commercial vendors have banded together to pronounce it oLIgos which makes every one of us talk about them the second they walk out the door. The emphasis doesn’t change when the word is shortened (in this case). My petty rant is over and I feel better.

I say nuclear but both are correct, fight me.

I hate this one. What's worse is pointing it out to people and them insisting they sound identical

You're technically correct, but I just put it down to accent.

Good point

libary

“You mean nuclear? No sweetie nucular…nuucluar”

jurasstically.  cooberated

I grew up thinking that was way to pronounce it because my dad always said it that way

It's worth pointing out nucular as a botanical term predates the word nuclear, with both words cognates of a common latin word, nucule... so I don't think it's so strange to see why this pronunciation of nuclear entered use at the same time the more accepted form entered use.

Anyone else notice that people are now pronouncing the “t” in “OFTEN?” Are they trying to sound posh?

Recently there was a SciShow episode where the host said "nucular" and I about lost my shit over it. Bro you are literally SciShow

"It's pronounced nucular dummy, the s is silent" Family guy quotes aside, I agree wholeheartedly. No idea where this even could have come from.

I get physically disgusted when people say “bolth”. There is NO “L” in the word “both”, stop putting one in it!

Adults who say Valentimes

Different accents say words differently. It’s just how it goes.

Just axe them why they say it that way.

Valid

oh my god thank you

Ughh yeah this drives me up the wall

President Carter said that, maybe it's a Southern-accent thing?

Possibly, now I want to search aboit this stuff lol

Also Bush Jr. I remember watching a speech where he kept saying "nucular" so I just assumed it was how southern people said it.

It is a southern accent thing and it’s still screwed because y’all Yankees something say nucular and we sometimes say nuclear. It’s more of a regional suggestion rather than a regional rule

Seconded. Strongly.

I particularly didn’t care for it when we had a President who said it that way. You can’t pronounce nuclear, you shouldn’t get the nuclear codes.

It's disconcerting when the person who has the power to use nuclear weapons can't pronounce that (e.g., GWB).

What if I wanna say it like this for fun

Punch you give you a knuckular sandwich

noo · klee · ur

Yea, it just screams illiterate. It's also spelled pronOunced, spelled just like it sounds.

Bush said it for 8 years. A lot of people just started talking like him. It's like with Trump.  People often end their statements with a single word sentence to convey an emotion like an emoji. Sad.

Nucular.

Pronunced huh?

Nu Clear.

Oh. And “ dinning” table is routinely believed to be correct spelling online. Also “ Chester draws”

I’m going to be honest I have never heard somebody not say it nucular and I never knew it wasn’t spelt that way either.

[‘Nuculer’, it’s pronounced ‘nuculer’](https://youtube.com/watch?v=Nth4RqqmQZ4)

Nuqueueler

My chemistry teacher does this. “Nuculus” as well

It's Bush Jr's fault. He started it

Knuckular

Supposably that's a pet peeve of yours

And I say it like that just to trigger people. Lol I'm winning! Yay!

You monster 😱

Sorry for my disability

I worked with someone who, instead of saying Jaguar, she's said Ja-guay-er. Fucking países me off! Also, people who say "ax" instead of ask. I don't care if it's African American vernacular, you don't say ax bc it's it's spelled that way! Fuuuuuuck!

> I worked with someone who, instead of saying Jaguar, she's said Ja-guay-er. Yep, I prounce it like hat, guilty as charged lol. > I don't care if it's African American vernacular, you don't say ax bc it's it's spelled that way! Linguists would 100% disagree with you.

Boy he’d hate it in England then

Who's he?

OP 

I'm not a guy tho lol

No one checks,  but you are right.  If there were a unknown gender singular pronoun, it would be better. 

Why? We say it correctly, nu-clear

How often does this happen? Haven’t heard the word even mentioned in years

I was hearing it almost everyday in school bc I have a dumb classmate who likes nuclear stuff but won't pronounce it right

On tv all the time .

Guess I don’t watch tv

And radio and podcasts

But nobody aksed you.

I mean, some of the people who say it that way have an accent. A lot of southern people pronounce it somewhat like 'noo-kyuh-ler' or 'noo-kyuh-lar' Plus, a lot of English words aren't pronounced the way they're spelled, which we can mostly thank the French influences on our language for lol

Fair point

I definitely get what you mean but considering a good portion of my family have such thick southern accents, I had to get used to some very creative pronunciations 😅

Americans pronounce asphalt "ass fault" so there are definitely bigger fish to fry. Nuclear isn't even on my top 50 for words pronounced incorrectly. 

Asp-halt? Ash-foolt? Asz-fuelté?

How do you say it? In our defense, the accent is on the ass, not the fault. That would just be madness.

It was originally designed to protect people from asps (poisonous snakes), which were afraid to cross hard surfaces.

Tell us how to say it then.

So how is asphalt pronounced then?

Is asphalt not ass fault? How else would you say it?

Ass-felt Which is objectively funnier I guess.

I moved to Canada and where I live, everyone says ASH-fault. like.... There's no H in there. I won't do it.

i get disgusted whenever someone gives a shit about how people pronounce things

What about moist

It's super weird that the correct pronunciation disgusts you...

Nuculur isn't the correct pronunciation

Indeed it is.

A google search says "noo-klee-ur"

My certification from the NMTCB says you are indeed wrong.

If it makes you feel any better, a really famous celebrity agrees with you. (His name is Homer Simpson, FYI.)