Ok, I know the man is not the sharpest tool in the shed, but everytime he says Nucular, it drives me batty and he sounds even more ignorant. Someone needs to tell the man it is N-U-C-L-E-A-R, sounds like it is spelled. You would think will all his handlers around that someone would clue him in.......just gets my goat. On the flip side, I enjoyed his candor tonight, seemed like he is speaking from the heart. DD
I know. I hate when he does that (nucular). Dan Quayle did that. I like Bush as a human being and wish him no ill will, but it would look a lot better if he would learn to say it right... surely someone on his staff is in a position to tell him that...
I have no idea which episode but I think the Simpsons made fun of that pernounciation of the word. Homer was correcting someone for saying it correctly.
It's funnier when the reporters ask a question and say nucular. I don't know if they're mocking him or if they really meant to say nucular.
Dan Quayle also once said (paraphrasing) "I wished I'd learned more Latin in school so I could feel more comfortable in Latin America"
That's his fake Texan accent. I know he grew up here, but he didn't go to high school or college here, its all an image, he probably thinks it makes him sound like a cowboy.
I'm from the same part of the country as Bush, and I've never pronounced it like that. And it's Homer correcting Lisa. "It's nucular, honey...it's pronounced nu-cu-lur."
Uhh, he's lived most of his life in Texas, including the impressionable early years of his life. Did you know that he was once the governor of Texas? It's not a fake accent. I consider it immature thinking when people judge others' intelligence based on how many times they slip up when speaking, or based on their accent.
My boss always says "ne-go-eate" instead of "negotiate". I feel bad for him every time and I actually told him, but I think he just doesn't get the difference. To his credit, he's German and thus not a native speaker, unlike Bush.
Ughh, yes I did, and I didn't say anything about his intelligence, so calm down, and as far as I'm concerned no one is more impressionable on their kids than I don't know, maybe the mother and father. Man those guys have such a thick southern accent, so does his brother Jeb.
Although Quayle said some very interesting things, the quote you cited NEVER HAPPENED. "In April 1989, Representative Claudine Schneider of Rhode Island told a gathering of Republicans that she had recently attended an event at the Belgian embassy, where Vice-President Quayle complimented her on her command of French. Then, Schneider said, the Vice-President added: "I was recently on a tour of Latin America, and the only regret I have was that I didn't study Latin harder in school so I could converse with those people.Ms. Schneider concluded by admitting that the story was merely a joke, but not all the newspapers reported it that way. Several publications, either through carelessness or a desire not to let the truth get in the way of a good story, reported the story as true. The culprits included such venerable publications as Newsday, the Chicago Tribune, Newsweek, and Time. The fabricated misquote took hold because it sounded exactly like something Dan Quayle (or, more accurately, the Dan Quayle of public perception) would say, and no amount of correction could dislodge it from the public vocabulary. "
Wow, a Republican defending another Republican's stupid remark. Yeah, I'll trust her and believe there was this huge conspiracy by the liberal media against Dan Quayle.
I've lived in Texas all my life and I don't say "Nukular" I mean, there is only one "u" in "nuclear", so how can anybody put two "u" sounds in the word? That's just laziness...
