"Nu-Cue-Lar" and what it means

[Duer 157099]

It boils my blood whenever I hear this mispronunciation. But it occurred to me what it means when Bush does it: it's a symbol of willful ignorance, of stubborn refusal to pay any attention to reality.

Is there any other explanation for such a blatant error?

Why don't people correct him? Surely there are educated people who can't stand hearing it either!!

There's not even any basis whatsoever for this being a "regional" thing, or some sort of accent or anything like that!

How does the spelling NU-CLE-AR morph into NU-CUE-LAR???

It'd be like biology teachers telling students that the nu-cue-lus was the part of the cell where the DNA is. How long would a biology professor (I mean a real one, not the newly minted intelligent design ones) last at a university if he were teaching his students that?

Where does this willful ignorance come from??? I hate it, it's so indicative of many things about our country today.

I say if a person cannot pronounce this word correctly, they forfeit any right to hold a public office at any level.