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Originally Posted by PRDNME  Tricky? How? There is no U after the C. It is not like potato where it is perfectly acceptable to say it with a long or short a. It is not a dialect issue, or an accent issue. It is the ability to actually read a word and pronounce it correctly. |
I live in Western Washington and we say nucular. I know that's not how it's spelled, but that is how you hear it said all the time up here. When I first saw the tape of her saying that, I didn't have any idea what people were trying to point out.
I just wanted to shed some light on that, being from the same neck of the woods. We also always say the, pronounced thuh. We never say the, pronounced thee. Once in college I was reading outloud. . .thuh apple. The professor pointed out that when
the precedes a word that starts with a vowel, it is pronounced the (thee). I had never heard such a thing in my life! LOL! He said it was a Northwest thing. Apparently so.