If you mean "nucular," well, Jimmy Carter says that, but he says "goobers," too.An adroit comment, IP! After all, a goober is a nucleus, etymologicaly speaking.
What do you call a hazelnut? Around here they're called filberts, but yankee yuppies insist on hazelnuts. That seems to be a drift from specific to general terms, similar to what hapened when quartz-iodine (that's ee-o-deen, not eye-oh-dyne, right?
) headlights became quartz-halogen headlights. (Salt-producing lights?)
, you do it with ALUMINIUM as wellMy former father-in-law couldn't make his mouth move right for either pronunciation, and it came out "aloonyum!"
I should have taken a clue from that, as it probably told me something about the family into which I was marrying.
