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minus-squareShinkanTrain@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up50·17 days agoStart pronouncing it ‘nucular’, there’s no bigger turn off.
minus-squareMalgas@beehaw.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11·edit-217 days agoFun fact: “nuclear” ultimately comes from the Latin nucula, ‘little nut’. The c and l being adjacent is the result of metathesis, similar to pronouncing “ask” as “ax”.
minus-squareHudell@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·15 days agoIs that because we exist within a nut? Or something like that, I don’t know. I don’t remember anything from the “the universe in a nutshell” book.
Start pronouncing it ‘nucular’, there’s no bigger turn off.
Fun fact: “nuclear” ultimately comes from the Latin nucula, ‘little nut’. The c and l being adjacent is the result of metathesis, similar to pronouncing “ask” as “ax”.
Is that because we exist within a nut?
Or something like that, I don’t know. I don’t remember anything from the “the universe in a nutshell” book.
Did I ax you?