Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: rbowman Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,alt.usage.english Subject: Re: GNU Date: 7 Mar 2026 23:49:19 GMT Lines: 35 Message-ID: References: <10o629v$1qssb$1@dont-email.me> <10o6emj$1uql3$5@dont-email.me> <20260303111343.00000572@gmail.com> <20260304080130.000068c7@gmail.com> <10oab0q$39n4f$6@dont-email.me> <10ocqti$4fas$3@dont-email.me> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net VDscnMmgvfsDCLKzq8/lOQuJK8BVFkiY/NXvNAyuwwP3D1zwvG Cancel-Lock: sha1:BO3jB12zoFGVLGgiVg3yXtoC7Zo= sha256:FITDTCqWkot3Uyc3TUjqCXKInyVRc6KAghkAkt7mDi4= User-Agent: Pan/0.162 (Pokrosvk) Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:82588 alt.usage.english:1138785 On Fri, 06 Mar 2026 22:18:46 -0800, Snidely wrote: > Thus spake rbowman: >> On Thu, 5 Mar 2026 21:00:34 -0000 (UTC), Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote: >> >>> On Thu, 05 Mar 2026 17:42:40 GMT, Charlie Gibbs wrote: >>> >>>> A friend of ours in Bellingham says "Warshington". >>>> >>>> What I can't understand is where some people get the second A when >>>> they say "realator". >>> >>> Can anybody explain “Nucular”? >> >> I can't explain it but in the '50s it was a common pronunciation by >> politicians and other talking heads. If Eisenhower said 'nucular' who >> was a little kid to question it? >> >> GW Bush was criticized for it but he's about my age so we grew up in >> the same era I have to censor myself to say 'nuclear' or even >> 'nucleus'. >> >> In the '50s it wasn't a common word. It was 'atomic bomb' not 'nuclear >> bomb', 'atomic cannon' not 'nuclear cannon'. >> >> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M65_atomic_cannon > > But "nuclear weapons" and "nuclear submarine". Mamie Eisenhower launched the Nautilus. I don't know about Mamie but her husband would have called it a nucular submarine.