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I don't know if anyone else has noticed this, but both McCain and
Palin seem to say "pundant" or "pundint" instead of "pundit".

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Tarski wrote:I don't know if anyone else has notices this but both McCain and
Palin seem to say "pundant" or "pundint" instead of "pundit".

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People hard core republicans admire.

LMAO

Related question: Is it correct to pronounce the word 'nuclear' as 'nuke-you-ler'?

Who Knows wrote:Related question: Is it correct to pronounce the word 'nuclear' as 'nuke-you-ler'?

Didn't Sarah Palin pronounce it that way during the Palin/Biden debate? I could've sworn she did.

Dictionary.com puts it as "noo-klee-er". Anyone that says it "nuke-you-ler" is a moron and should be punched in the neck immediately.

Dr. Shades wrote:

Who Knows wrote:Related question: Is it correct to pronounce the word 'nuclear' as 'nuke-you-ler'?

Didn't Sarah Palin pronounce it that way during the Palin/Biden debate? I could've sworn she did.

Yes, she did. Extremely annoying. It's like she was trying to take after bush.

I believe mccain says nuc-u-lar as well.

Angus wrote:Anyone that says it "nuke-you-ler" is a moron and should be punched in the neck immediately.

Heh. couldn't agree more.

Yeah, pundant. I hear that all the time, especially on KSL radio. Maybe it's the same people who talk about the "tenants" of a religion (tenets).

But my favorite mangled English word has to be "flustrated." It's like a combination of "flustered" and "frustrated."

Well, and you can't forget "supposably." Supposedly, that's how it's pronounced.

The irony here is that you're only showing your own ignorance about the significance of this variant, thus bringing into question your own intelligence. Linguistic experts acknowledge that this is not a reflection of education or intelligence at all:

Take the pronunciation of nuclear as "nucular." That one has been getting on people's nerves since Eisenhower made the mispronunciation famous in the 1950's. In Woody Allen's 1989 film Crimes and Misdemeanors, the Mia Farrow character says she could never fall for any man who says "nucular." That would have ruled out not just Dubya, but Bill Clinton, who said the word right only about half the time. (President Carter had his own way of saying the word, as "newkeeuh," but that probably had more to do with his Georgia accent than his ignorance of English spelling.)...

The interesting thing is that these people are perfectly capable of saying "nuclear families" or "nuclear medicine." I once asked a weapons specialist at a federal agency about this, and he told me, "Oh, I only say 'nucular' when I'm talking about nukes." - http://people.ischool.berkeley.edu/~nun ... cular.html

So Eisenhower, Clinton, and Carter all three mispronounce it as such... where is the outrage from the intellectually elite Left?

Instead of talking about "nucular" as a mere thinko, we need to treat it as a variant pronunciation for a word, an alternative to "nuclear". Just like alternative pronunciations for: radiator, apricot, tomato, envelope, and many, many other words (with item-specific variants). So, put aside judgmental attitudes for a while, and ask how people use these alternative pronunciations. - http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/language ... 01133.html

Now here is the million dollar question: Why wasn't this an issue when Bill Clinton was "butchering the language"?

This just goes to further the point that idiots are out to get Palin at all costs. They have to attack her from every possible angle imaginable in order to ease their own conscience about electing someone so unqualified as Obama. It helps them make that bad choice if they can convince themselves the other side is too stupid to be in office.

Why isn't Tarski worried about Biden's inability to count to four? We know the answer to this.

dartagnan wrote:So Eisenhower, Clinton, and Carter all three mispronounce it as such... where is the outrage from the intellectually elite Left?

Angus said: "Anyone that says it "nuke-you-ler" is a moron and should be punched in the neck immediately."

And I said I agreed.

Are you happy?