nuclear/nucular

[Laurence Horn]

>Anne Gilbert observes that,
>
>   >> There are also "jewelery", "libary", and "choresteral"
>
>Someone else mentioned the first one, I believe.

Yup, me.

LH

>
>I don't think the last two fit the particular pattern we've been
>discussing--i.e., the insertion of a "@" sound between letters or
>syllables. "Libary" (like "Febuary") is the omission of a consonant,
>"choresteral" the substitution of two letters for the correct ones ("r" for
>"l," "a" for "o").
>
>--Dodi Schultz