Nookular...

[TastesLikeChicken]

No, it's not. Right at the beginning it's not:

ˈnyü is NOT "noo" or "nu" at all, it . . . is . . . just . . . NOT.

Right in this thread, there is a brave listener who installed Apple quicktime so he could listen to the pronunciations, and he reported back:
Christ, man, RIGHT ON THAT MERRIAM-WEBSTER PAGE is a pronunciation symbol guide you can click on:

If you were still either too stubborn or too dense to comprehend or admit that ˈnyü is NOT "noo" or "nu", whoop, there it is!

I'm not going to help you get dressed any further than this, you're on your own for the other two syllables, but you're continued dimwitted contention about the second pronunciation, and I guote, "The second pronunciation is essentially nookular, nucular, nukyaler" is dead on arrival and dumb as a dodo, chum.

Admit it.

Oh lord.

All Merriam-Webster has for pronunciations of nuclear are a male and female rendition of the primary pronunciation. The second, alternative pronunciation, if spoken as they have it indicated symbolically would be - nyoo-kya-lar. If you don't believe me I would suggest that you don't rely on a few written symbols. Instead you should refer to the following which M-W provides on their website to fully explain the usage of their pronunciation symbology:

http://www.merriam-webster.com/help/mwol-pronunciation-guide.pdf

Come back after you've learned something you arrogant jackass.

 

[tcsenter]

The 'forbidden' ways that I've heard it pronounced, over which people's panties get into in a bunch are:

Nyoo-kyoo-ler (or lar)

Noo-kyoo-ler (or lar)

Nyoo-kya-ler (or lar)

Noo-kya-ler (or lar)

 

[Locut0s]

So, I was watching Fox News...

This is where you FAILED.

 

[Perknose]

OP rants on nookular. TLC erroneously claims M/W lists and accepts it as the second pronunication.

Not only is it a weak rant, it's an uninformed one.
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/nuclear
Notice the second accepted pronunciation?

I show TLC how completely wrong he is, using the IPA symbols M/W uses for the second pronunciation to prove that second listed pronunciation " ˈnyü-, ÷-kyə-lər" categorically isn't "nook u lar":

ˈnyü- /= noo

kyə /= u

lər /= lar .

Another poster chimes in that he listened to the audio of both (you need, ugh, Quick Time), and CLEARLY neither is "nookular."

LOL, TLC in his last quote below reaches DEEP into his rectum and claims, and I quote, "All Merriam-Webster has for pronunciations of nuclear are a male and female rendition of the primary pronunciation."

The BULLSHITTING little dimwit 'tard! He thinks this is so because M/W's audio files randomly use accepted pronunciations from both sexes. Indeed, the second audio clip corresponds to the second accepted pronunciaton, " ˈnyü-, ÷-kyə-lər", which I confirm (as if I needed to, but I did) by fucking downloading QT and listening for myself!

Anyway, before he claims this in his last weak-ass load of bullshit, he posts and claims:

lol. The second pronunciation is essentially nookular, nucular, nukyaler, or however you want to spell it out, dipshit. Stop trying to be such an assinine pedant based on a spelling when everyone else already knows what specific pronunciation we are talking about.

Sheesh, fucking moron.

Notice the bolded, even after I showed him the IPA pronunciation " ˈnyü-, ÷-kyə-lər" which even a DIMWIT that doesn't know the pronunciation guide can SEE has a fucking 'Y' in the very first syllable!!!!!

SO HE LIES AND SHIFTS HIS ASS IN HIS LAST POST. Having been caught, he now attempts to sneak a 'Y' into his claim.

You have only to compare the bolded above with the bolded below to catch him in his attempted LIE.

Ahhh, but he exposes his ignorance even harder below. What an ASS!

Look at the further below where he say, and I quote, "If you don't believe me I would suggest that you don't rely on a few written symbols."

LOLOLOLOLOL, those "few written symbols came straight from that Merriam Webster's page: Pronunciation Symbols

I even told him so:

Christ, man, RIGHT ON THAT MERRIAM-WEBSTER PAGE is a pronunciation symbol guide you can click on:

Oh lord.

All Merriam-Webster has for pronunciations of nuclear are a male and female rendition of the primary pronunciation. The second, alternative pronunciation, if spoken as they have it indicated symbolically would be - nyoo-kya-lar. If you don't believe me I would suggest that you don't rely on a few written symbols. Instead you should refer to the following which M-W provides on their website to fully explain the usage of their pronunciation symbology:

http://www.merriam-webster.com/help/mwol-pronunciation-guide.pdf

Come back after you've learned something you arrogant jackass.

Tastes Like Chicken, you have been so thoroughly busted and exposed as herein practicing the troll trifecta of bullshit, outright dececption, and dumbassery that it is EPIC.


Cliffs:

OP complains about nookular.

TLC claims M/W lists it as its second acceptable pronunciation. It doesn't.

Challenged, TLC claims the M/W IPA pronunciation " ˈnyü-, ÷-kyə-lər" IS pronounced "nook u lar." It isn't.

Shown he's wrong by the audio pronunciation of the second listing, TCL tries to claim M/W always provides a male and a female version of the SAME pronunciation. They don't. They never do.

Caught flat out that ˈnyü is NOT pronounced noo, TLC tries to change his claim from one post to the next but is caught red handed.

Assorted other "pulled right out of his anus" BS proves TLC is something of an insistent boob.

/Cliffs

Thank you and good night.

 

[Kalmah]

The only news I pay attention to is NPR.. everything else sucks compared.

 

[TastesLikeChicken]

OP rants on nookular. TLC erroneously claims M/W lists and accepts it as the second pronunication.



I show TLC how completely wrong he is, using the IPA symbols M/W uses for the second pronunciation to prove that second listed pronunciation " ˈnyü-, ÷-kyə-lər" categorically isn't "nook u lar":

ˈnyü- /= noo

kyə /= u

lər /= lar .

Another poster chimes in that he listened to the audio of both (you need, ugh, Quick Time), and CLEARLY neither is "nookular."

LOL, TLC in his last quote below reaches DEEP into his rectum and claims, and I quote, "All Merriam-Webster has for pronunciations of nuclear are a male and female rendition of the primary pronunciation."

The BULLSHITTING little dimwit 'tard! He thinks this is so because M/W's audio files randomly use accepted pronunciations from both sexes. Indeed, the second audio clip corresponds to the second accepted pronunciaton, " ˈnyü-, ÷-kyə-lər", which I confirm (as if I needed to, but I did) by fucking downloading QT and listening for myself!

Erm, first of all, you don't need Quicktime, retard. It works just fine with WMP. Second, retard, I listened to the pronunciations before I even posted the link the very first time, so I'm not sure what you are trying to prove by claiming Quicktime is required.

Anyway, before he claims this in his last weak-ass load of bullshit, he posts and claims:



Notice the bolded, even after I showed him the IPA pronunciation " ˈnyü-, ÷-kyə-lər" which even a DIMWIT that doesn't know the pronunciation guide can SEE has a fucking 'Y' in the very first syllable!!!!!

SO HE LIES AND SHIFTS HIS ASS IN HIS LAST POST. Having been caught, he now attempts to sneak a 'Y' into his claim.

You have only to compare the bolded above with the bolded below to catch him in his attempted LIE.

Ahhh, but he exposes his ignorance even harder below. What an ASS!

Look at the further below where he say, and I quote, "If you don't believe me I would suggest that you don't rely on a few written symbols."

LOLOLOLOLOL, those "few written symbols came straight from that Merriam Webster's page: Pronunciation Symbols

I even told him so:

Tastes Like Chicken, you have been so thoroughly busted and exposed as herein practicing the troll trifecta of bullshit, outright dececption, and dumbassery that it is EPIC.


Cliffs:

OP complains about nookular.

TLC claims M/W lists it as its second acceptable pronunciation. It doesn't.

Challenged, TLC claims the M/W IPA pronunciation " ˈnyü-, ÷-kyə-lər" IS pronounced "nook u lar." It isn't.

Shown he's wrong by the audio pronunciation of the second listing, TCL tries to claim M/W always provides a male and a female version of the SAME pronunciation. They don't. They never do.

Caught flat out that ˈnyü is NOT pronounced noo, TLC tries to change his claim from one post to the next but is caught red handed.

Assorted other "pulled right out of his anus" BS proves TLC is something of an insistent boob.

/Cliffs

Thank you and good night.

Bwahahahha. You're actually going to get pedantic about the fucking "Y?"

OMG. You are hilarious. The "Y" in nyü is barely heard. It's more of a tongue position than an actual pronunciation, which is why I didn't bother with it in the first place. But here comes Perknose, intent on trying to issue a beatdown, and he goes off on a bunch of insignificant bullshit. How fucking typical for an arrogant asshole?

'Nucular,' as another poster recently already pointed out, is pronounced with a number of variations, some of which contain the "Y" and some of which don't. But you know as well as I that the "Y" is completely insignificant since it's the following two syllables that are the true bone of contention -kya-lar. Yet you want to try to shift the focus to the first syllable?

Take a hike, punk. You're being a pedantic troll. Your argument has no suspenders and your ass is showing.

 

[Perknose]

Erm, first of all, you don't need Quicktime, retard. It works just fine with WMP. Second, retard, I listened to the pronunciations before I even posted the link the very first time, so I'm not sure what you are trying to prove by claiming Quicktime is required.


Bwahahahha. You're actually going to get pedantic about the fucking "Y?"

OMG. You are hilarious. The "Y" in nyü is barely heard. It's more of a tongue position than an actual pronunciation, which is why I didn't bother with it in the first place. But here comes Perknose, intent on trying to issue a beatdown, and he goes off on a bunch of insignificant bullshit. How fucking typical for an arrogant asshole?

'Nucular,' as another poster recently already pointed out, is pronounced with a number of variations, some of which contain the "Y" and some of which don't. But you know as well as I that the "Y" is completely insignificant since it's the following two syllables that are the true bone of contention -kya-lar. Yet you want to try to shift the focus to the first syllable?

Take a hike, punk. You're being a pedantic troll. Your argument has no suspenders and your ass is showing.

You got caught being laughably WRONG.

You got caught BULLSHITTING.

You even got caught LYING.

And you're still sticking to your bullshit story? That's pathetic.

And, you are STILL categorically and undeniably WRONG about all three syllables and you still either don't see it or won't admit it.

I'm not shifting the emphasis to that, I posted it first because it's your most obvious mistake, but again, you are WRONG about all three syllables.

Wow.

You won't or can't even admit all the howlingly WRONG side bullshit you have tried to truck in.

Look, folks, if you don't want or can't follow the linguistic argument that he is WRONG about each syllable, here's a sure and simple way you judge for yourself WHAT A LYING LITTLE WEASEL THIS GUY IS:

-- Go to the page http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/nuclear and listen to both audio pronunciations. They are different, but just slightly.

-- Remember that in his first post (#6), TLC claims the second pronunciation IS nookular.

-- You can PLAINLY hear that it isn't, can't you. Well, I pointed that out to him, highlighting the 'y' in the phonetic pronunciation. He missed it in his second post, where he omits the 'y', so I point it out to him again, and he tries to slip it in!

-- THEN THE PATHETIC BULLSHIT ARTIST changes his story and tries to claim that the second audio pronunciation isn't about nookular, but is merely the female version of the first pronunciation. This is clear and utter lying bullshit on so many levels. Don't believe me? Time to play:

-- ^^^^ SPOT THE LIAR! It's easy, since you're at the M/W site, just look up any number of words you wish. Note that all that have but ONE accepted pronunciation have but ONE audio version.

Those that have TWO, like nuclear, have two corresponding audio clickies! One for each accepted and listed pronunciation.

But wait? How can that be? TLC claims that M/W provides a male and a female version for each word! (post #76)

Could he possibly have desperately floated this second BULLSHIT LIE to lamely try to cover up the fact that the audio PROVES his initial contention was WRONG?

You decide.

And if you want more proof, just go back and read my posts where I school him point by point, syllable by syllable, with the facts.

Then please come back here and give this lying troll the feces he so richly deserves.

 

[eits]

in tlc's defense, "nyü-, ÷-kyə-lər" = "nucular"

nyü = neu
kyə = kyuh
lər = lur

neu-kyuh-lur = nucular

that still doesn't mean it's how you say nuclear. it means it's in m-w because so many people say it incorrectly that when they look it up, they need to see what they mean.

 

[moshquerade]

So, I was watching Fox News this weekend and heard one of their commentators use the word Nuclear...only he pronounced it nookular. What kind of dumbfuck who proclaims to be a journalist intentionally mispronounces a word like this? Did you flunk out of high school and then go to the University of Dumbfuckistan for your degree in Journalism?

I can't stand when they try to "re-pronounce" any word. It's like they want to create a new word or maybe get your attention.

 

[JD50]

Wow, Perknose gets worked up over some of the dumbest shit.