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["Lynda" <lurine AT softcom.net>]

Welllll, Texas isn't exactly Southern <g>  Texas is a world unto itself!

Lynda
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "SJC" <indexer AT localnet.com>


> Not too regional.  Or too cultural.   I have lived and taught in both 
> public and private schools and tutored homeschool students, all where 
> German was the first language and in public and private schools where 
> English was the first language, in northern Canada, the Canadian 
> maritimes, the midwest and the north and south east parts of this 
> country.   I was born and raised in Indiana but since English is not my 
> first language I've all my life been listening.... One of the words I've 
> most commonly heard corrected is the word in question:  nuclear.  The 
> pronunciation Bush uses certainly seems to me to simply be a 
> common-across-the-board mispronunciation.  And obviously it grates on 
> the ears of many, in numerous regions and cultures, from Inuit to 
> Virginia watermen.
>
> It's a totally different pronunciation from what my next door neighbor 
> in southern Virginia (bred and born and raised in western Virginia and 
> lived all adult life in Tidewater) called "southern slushtalk".    If 
> you listen to Bush himself pronounce it you'll hear what he says.  
> Doesn't sound southern.  Or northern.  Or anything else.  Just sounds 
> like he needs to go look up how the word is spelled.