spelling peeve

[dot_fennel]

Gandhi. Gandhi Gandhi Gandhi.

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[moominmolly.livejournal.com]

It's like the incredible floating 'h', isn't it? Ghandi, Gahndi, Ganhdi...

I had to listen to a speech recently where the speaker kept pronouncing the word "nuclear" as noo-kyoo-lar. Rrrf! Or, wait, maybe I dreamt that. Anyway, it annoyed me.

[veek.livejournal.com]

Was the speaker yellow and bald?

hee hee

[moominmolly.livejournal.com]

No, it was definitely an in-person deal. I remember that he almost got it right, once, but the rest of the time I was hiding in David's shoulder because it was grating on me so much. Why on earth can't I remember it? I can't even remember the guy's face, but I'm sure that it was a guy and that he had a microphone.

Ike started that.

[pseydtonne.livejournal.com]

When Eisenhower became president, he was incapable of saying "noo-kle:r". This seemed to give other people clearance, and it has stuck. Ike won the European end of the war (the real war, as contrary to WW 2.6-rev-3 going on right now) so no one was going to tell him "hey, there's only one U in that word."

To review the revision stack, by the way:

• World War 1.0 - which should be renamed the Last European Colonial War, as far as I'm concerned;
• WW 2-beta-1: Spanish Civil War;
• WW 2-beta-2: The Anschluss and Sudetenbullscheisse;
• WW 2
• WW 2.4 -- Mort Sahl's term for the Korean War. He coined the term in the Fifties, when the Eleventh Hour seemed so close. To preserve continuity, we move to:
• WW 2.5-beta-1: Bay of Pigs;
• WW 2.5: Vietnam;
• WW 2.6-beta-1: Falklands;
• WW 2.6-beta-2: Grenada;
• WW 2.6-rev-1: "The Persian Gulf Distraction";
• WW 2.6-rev-2: Any war during the Clinton Administration, since we had a bunch of them but none of us remember anything (Somalia, Yugoslavia, ummm... Hurricane Hugo?);
• WW 2.6-rev-3: now with tartar control.

-deep in the mines, ps/d