Shibboleth

[cormac]

It should be a constitutional requirement that anyone trying to run for political office must be able to pronounce the following word correctly:

Nuclear.

Look at the word. Nuclear. Like clear. As in it should be perfectly clear how the word nuclear is pronounced.

Our current Idiot-in-Chief can't pronounce the word, and he's got his finger on the button. McThuselah's second-in-command just nukular'd in her first national address. Christ on a stick, I'm sick of this kakistocratic bullshit!

Comments

[lady_songsmith]

::puts on language geek hat::

Actually, clear is more of a schwa whereas nuclear has an active final vowel. Under no circumstances should there be more than one "u" in nuclear, though.

[herveus.livejournal.com]

Yeah. It takes little in the way of observatory powers to see that the 'c' and the 'l' are adjacent, having no vowel separating them.