nucular and Latino

[Paul Frank]

Two unrelated questions:

How come many Hispanic and non-Hispanic native speakers of English pronounce
"Latino" and "Latina" as if they were Spanish words when they're speaking
English? I just heard somebody on NPR hesitate for a split second to switch
to Spanish for that word and then back to English. It doesn't sound natural
to my ears. And I'm a native speaker of Spanish.

I also have a question about pronouncing nuclear as if it were pronounced
"nucular." George W. Bush says nucular. Eisenhower used to say nucular. How
about other presidents? How common is this pronunciation?

Paul
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