Friday, March 18, 2011

Where does Homer work?

Quick! Where does Homer Simpson work? At the "NUCULER" plant, right?

Well, that's the way Homer pronounces it, but even he knows that's not right. His better-educated and better-spoken boss, C. Montgomery Burns, knows it's the NUCLEAR power plant.

What's bothering me is the apparent inability of people in the media to pronounce correctly several English words of more than one syllable. "Nuculer" is at the top of Walt's fecal roster. IT'S NOT "NUCULER", you morons! It's "NUCLEAR".

Let's practise. The root word is the Latin -- now English -- nucleus. NU as in "gnu"; CLE as in "clear"; and US as in "anus". NU-CLE-US.

Now, to form the adjective, change the last syllable to AR as in "are". NU-CLE-AR. How hard could it be?

You're welcome.

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