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Thread #124681   Message #3229449
Posted By: Don(Wyziwyg)T
26-Sep-11 - 02:08 PM
Thread Name: BS: American English usages taking over Brit
Subject: RE: BS: American English usages taking over Brit
It doesn't much worry me if citizens of the USA have typewriters without a letter u, or the letter s, having to content themselves with a bare o in colour, and a z in all words ending in -ise.

I wish however that they would remember a few important facts:-

No atom ever had a "Nuculus", it is a Nu-cleus.
Hence, there is no Nucular Energy, no Nucular Bomb, no Nucular Treaty, and No Nucular Family.

Without exception, they are "Nuclear", pronounced "New Clear"

This would not bother me at all, were it confined to the USA, but even our bloody newsreaders are doing it on the BBC, once the home of correct pronunciation.

GGGGRRRRR!

Don T.