Tuesday, July 31, 2007

our next president

had damned well better be able to say "nuclear".

Try opening about 5 iterations of this page at once. And brace your ears.

2 comments:

stephy said...

I dislike GWB as much as anyone but the way he pronounces "nuclear" is just his southern accent. Jimmy Carter and LBJ pronounced it that way too.

Benjamin Ady said...

Stephanie,

As it turns out, the pronunciation "nucular" is not so much specifically southern as just sort of widespread American. But still...