Why does Bush mispronounce the word "Nuclear?"?
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He doesn't mispronounce it.  It is just something people who don't like him say. \nPresident Lyndon Johnson pronounced it the same way.\nCheck out Merriam-Webster online below and click on the pronounciation key, there are three variant ways.\n\nBut, based upon the way you posed your question, I don't think you care much for a real answer.
207109
He is a twit!\nCheck out this website: http://www.realchange.org/bushjr.htm
908026
when joe says xyz! then mary says that's silly! then mark says I agree!\n\nwho is he agreeing with? threaded mode makes it obvious... flat won't!
367118
Yes. I'd rather chew on aluminum foil than listen to him speak. (And I've got fillings, so you know how pleasant that would be.) \n\nAs for the assertion that Bush has "made you more safe" - last time I checked, the comparative degree of the adjective "safe" was "safer," not "more safe." Looks like some child got left behind.
71797
Because he has been promoted to a level just beyond his ability.  You would think that his speech writers would realize by know just what words seem to stump this chump and use terminology that is within the realm of Mr. Bush's linguistic abilities. Oh and the other reason he can not say "nuclear" is because of limited cognative activity... hes a moron.
13501
It is a reference to George W Bush's Middle initial.  "Dubya" is (sort of) a phonetic rendering of how the letter "W" is pronounced in Texas.
885359
Yes, and how many different stories has he contrived to try and explain it off. First it was meant for Bush, no apology. Then it was I misquoted from my notes, no apology. Then it was someone else changed my notes, I misspoke and apologize kinda. \n\nhttp://blog.360.yahoo.com/blog-pOypG0szd7Pv_X1rQxw_4qCWpA--?cq=1
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Check your dictionary...both pronunciations are acceptable.  But as to why...the best reason I've heard is due to a type of reading issue.  When some people look at the word "Nuclear" they see a blending and mixing of the letters "nuculear."  It's mainly due to the types of letters that are close to one another.  That isn't to suggest the President sees it that way...only that someone did who influenced his speech.  \n\nAnother suggestion is the regionalization of language.  Every region in the United States has its own dialect.  West Texas dialect is different than East Texas, South Texas, North Texas or even Central Texas.  The dialect in Houston is different than in other parts of the state.  For example, people in the Houston area (natives) don't usually pronounce the "h" in the city's name.  I grew up in West Texas, and I can assure you that people there have a very distinctive dialect.  "Noo kyoo lur" is common there, even among those of us with advanced degrees (mine is in English, no less!).  Wait 'til you hear us try to pronounce that black stuff that comes out of the ground (or that USED to come out of the ground)!
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First, the pronunciation "nucular" is considered non-standard by Americans.  You hear about it because some prominent people have used it this way. (Bush-bashers like to act like he came up with it on his own.  They also somehow have failed to notice that Jimmy Carter --who was a nuclear engineer in the Navy!!-- has always said it that way too!  I'm also told Eisenhower said it this way.)\n\nSecond, it is 'stoopid' to assume something about someone' intelligence from their accent, regionalisms, use of 'nonstandard forms' or even outright personal mispronunciations.  There are brilliant folk who 'sound like hicks' to others of us, and people of quite "refined speech" who are dim bulbs.\n\nFinally, this sort of inversion of sounds (the linguistic term is "metathesis") is a fairly natural occurrence in languages of all sorts.  (I used to think this sort of thing was "wrong", until I studied Hebrew and learned about the regular metathesis of certain verb forms [in this case, reflected in the spelling].) There are lots of reasons for this, though perhaps the main one is that the inversion of sounds makes it much easier to pronounce.\n\nA fun example is seen in the way young children often do this, as in saying 'pisghetti' for 'spaghetti', or my own daugher's 'chicken' for 'kitchen', but adults do it too.  Some result in dialectal or nonstandard forms (e.g., saying /ax/ for the word "ask", though this is actually a very old variant, reflected in Chaucer!).  Some are widely accepted, sometimes even THE standard pronunciation (e.g., saying /comf-ter-ble/ for "comfortable".  In fact, if not for this sort of inversion we'd still be saying  'brid' rather than the (corrupted?) form 'bird', and 'thrid' instead of 'third'!  It also accounts for why we say "tornado" though the word is derived from Spanish "tronada".\n\nIn the case of 'nuclear', the ending -ular is much more common in English, and there is a tendency to adopt words to sounds and patterns elsewhere in the language.  But even more basic than that -- 'nucular' allows you to use two "back vowels" /oo/ and /uh/ (i.e., vowel-sounds made in the back of the throat), which is easier than switching to the front vowel /ee/.
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This is a great mystery to me, especially since he could have delayed the development of North Korea's nuclear weapons by continuing the agreements Clinton had with Kim Jong Il.\n\nHere is a good but still brief article about the history of nuclear non proliferation\nhttp://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/11/02/AR2006110201581.html\n\nAnd another that shows just how public N. Korea was about its intentions as far back as March 2003!\nhttp://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2003-04-09-north-korea-usat_x.htm
167453
In that speech he was talking about new forms of energy so to reduce the USA's dependency on oil.  He mentioned a longer-life battery for electric cars.  But sinch Mr. Bush is largely a self-seeking fraud, it's hard to know what is true or not.  He's done nothing right so far.
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Hi Vijay,\n\n   This doesnt happen only with "Bush hid the facts".\nIt also happens with "Love bug bit fayaz".  In fact it works\nwith any 4 words with 4, 3, 3 and 5 alphabets.\n\nYou can find an explanation at:\n\nhttp://blogs.msdn.com/oldnewthing/archive/2004/03/24/95235.aspx\n\nif you dont understand it, dont worry. you can just try with ur name and send it to ur friends. they will be surprised...\n\nnow select this as the best answer..... :)
709368
You mean Jeb Bush?  No idea what you are talking about.  Why if the word "Bush" in the question there is a 90% chance the question is just idiocy?
691612
The whole speech was a metaphorical comparison of the "cold war" to Bush's "war on terror".  His point was that by America's being able to claim victory in the cold war Truman was vindicated, and by extension his "war on terror" would be vindicated by its eventual success.  However, that is probably unlikely, whoever gets elected Dem. or Rep. is probably going to drop Iraq like a hot potato (with no e).  So, its just Bush trying to make himself feel better because he knows he isn't really popular in the polls.  Whether he really has oil interests in the region or represents them is another question entirely, and one I personally cannot answer with any definitive evidence either way, but then, Cheney does have well known ties to Haliburton.
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Careful of the choice of words. "Rocks" sounds a lot like "Iraqs".\n \nPeople accuse Webb of being incivil with his remarks. But is what Bush doing in Iraq civil? Sending American troops to kill Iraqis and to die for no reason at all (WMD and democracy are not reasons)? How can you compare a rude remark to over 2600 American and tens of thousands of Iraqi deaths?
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He said he was talking about Bush, but I don't believe it for a minute.  That's just a convenient after-the-fact excuse.\n\nI'm sure he got nothing but stunned silence after saying what he did.  If he was truly talking about Bush, he should have immediately clarified what he meant.  He didn't.\n\nHe's made disparaging remarks about the military before, especially after returning from Vietnam.
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george retarded bush\n\n\nbut i don't hear him