> 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.
“Al-Salooq” by Ozric Tentacles from the album Arborescence (1994, 5:02).
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President Bush knows Latin!
There is a new theory that President Bush’s native language is Latin:
Something interesting: ‘nuclear’ is the adjectival form of ‘nucleus’, which comes from the Latin ‘nuculeus’, from ‘nucula’ the diminutive of ‘nux’, meaning ‘nut’. So …