I once worked for a CEO that pronounced "year" as "yeah". I loved it. Every meeting felt like a pep rally because it was sprinkled with phrases like "we've got four yeahs" and "we worked all yeah on this".

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HPsquared 8 months ago | parent | next [-]

A LOT of people in the nuclear industry pronounce it as 'nucular'. I'm a little horrified.

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crazygringo 8 months ago | parent | next [-]

You can read all about it:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nucular

But it's not something to be horrified by; it's no different from how we commonly pronounce "February" without the first "r", or "government" without the "n", or "Wednesday" flipping the "dne" to "nd".

What's even more interesting is that it's only in the context of weapons/energy. The same person will say "nuclear family" the way it's spelled.

But in the weapons/energy context, it's just a natural re-use of the suffix in "moleCULAR", "oCULAR", "cirCULAR". Technically wrong in terms of its derivation, but it feels entirely natural to say, and requires less tongue movement.

It's not due to a lack of education or anything. It's more like a regional dialect, where the region is nuclear weapons and energy.

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fvrghl 8 months ago | parent [-]

Do you pronounce it as Wed-nes-day?

I've never heard it as anything but Wends-day, but maybe everyone else is wrong.

	▲	ithkuil 8 months ago \| parent \| next [-]
		That's the way I always heard it too and indeed it contains the consonant cluster "nd" (inverted from what's spelled)
	▲	crazygringo 8 months ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		No, that's my point. That words can be pronounced very differently from their spelling.

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bena 8 months ago | parent | prev | next [-]

This may be wrong or apocryphal or a third thing:

But I recall reading that this is a deliberate affect used by those who work with nuclear material. Partly as a shibboleth, partly as a means of making the word easier to say quickly.

It came up because George W Bush would pronounce it “nucular” and that was given as the reason. All if my memory serves that is.

	▲	HPsquared 8 months ago \| parent [-]
		It would make sense as a different spelling and pronunciation I guess. Like "molecular" or "ocular" or "particular". Fits in better.

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blipvert 8 months ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Simpson fans, surely, for obvious reasons.

I’d bet that they love the foilage in fall, too.

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sjcsjc 8 months ago | parent [-]

Someone has to say cromulent at this point

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freedomben 8 months ago | parent [-]

Always remember, "A Noble Spririt Embiggens The Smallest Man."

	▲	kazinator 8 months ago \| parent [-]
		std::embiggen is coming to C++28, as part of the implementation of explode semantics.

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alsetmusic 8 months ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Northeast USA, maybe NY or NJ?

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craftkiller 8 months ago | parent | next [-]

I think he was Australian but we were in silicon valley at the time (though I live+work in that area now).

	▲	nopassrecover 8 months ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Yeah I can picture it. The non-rhotic R on its own doesn’t narrow it further, but there would be distinction within Australia based on the sounds of the “ea” part. Off the cuff I can picture some Australians taking it more nasally at the top of the palate sort of yee-ah (think Steve Irwin), a more neutral yeehr with a hint of final r (but more clipped and mono syllable than an American accent), or even a yair that might push as far as yuhhh (heading towards a sort of hybrid of Californian Valley Girl and the posh British accent used in American media). Bit of an exploration of the evoking Australian accent here: https://amp.abc.net.au/article/103321146
	▲	dylan604 8 months ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Australians have other speech things too like shortening words and ending them with a long E sound. breakfast => breaky(or however they spell it down under). or adding an "oh" syllable to words like right-o

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hoseja 8 months ago | parent | prev [-]

All dose poiple, all dose hamboigahs.

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DiggyJohnson 8 months ago | parent | prev [-]

Boston?

	▲	freedomben 8 months ago \| parent [-]
		Quote possibly, I'm guessing a resident of Boston for many yeahs