spelling matters

[sagehen]

arnold writes:
>whatever else this is, it's a touching tribute to the power of the
writing system in the minds of its users. <
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Something like this thought passed through my mind when *nuclear/nucular/
nuke* were being discussed here last week.  It occurred to me that a
speaker (if any such exists) who did employ "nucular" for atomic reference,
but "nuclear" in other contexts  might be thinking "nukular" derived from
"nuke."
A. Murie