nuclear/nucular

[Alice Faber]

Wendalyn Nichols said:
>At 12:28 PM 10/24/02 -0400, Frank Abate wrote:
>>[...]
>>2. Kennedy said "NOO-ky at -l@r" (that is, the "right way").  I'm pretty sure I
>>heard an audio clip of Nixon on this, and I believe he too was a
>>"NOO-ky at -l@r"-sayer.
>[...]
>
>Don't you mean "NOO-klee- at r" as the "right way"?
>

Well, if you're appealing to JFK's pronunciation as the right [sic]
way, surely it would be "NOO-klee- at h".
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