A pronounced deficiency in IQ | Metafilter

> Something interesting (sorry if I’m repeating someone above): ‘nuclear’ is the adjectival form of ‘nucleus’, which comes from the Latin ‘nuculeus’, from ‘nucula’ the diminutive of ‘nux’, meaning ‘nut’. So the at some point the ‘u’ between the ‘c’ and ‘l’ was dropped (and at that point would have probably been considered a mispronunciation). > > My theory - it’s Bush’s comprehensive knowledge of and fluency in Latin that leads to his pronunciation.

— adamdegen

“Al-Salooq” by Ozric Tentacles from the album Arborescence (1994, 5:02).