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Oh no my harvest is too bountiful (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
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[–] 203 points 1 year ago (18 children)

Start pronouncing it 'nucular', there's no bigger turn off.

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  • [–] 44 points 1 year ago (11 children)

    RIGHT?! I'm glad I'm not the only one. It's based on the term NUCLEUS ffs.

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  • [–] 24 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Now, to be fair, nucleus it comes from the latin nuculus. It just that it sounds bad and feels bad to say

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Noooooo my whole worldviewww

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  • [–] 30 points 1 year ago* (5 children)

    Fun fact: "nuclear" ultimately comes from the Latin nucula, 'little nut'. The c and l being adjacent is the result of metathesis, similar to pronouncing "ask" as "ax".

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Now go further back. Where does the latin word nucula come from?

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  • [–] 16 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    went further back lol

    Latin: Nux - nut nuculus - diminutive of nut ("little nut")

    Proto-Indo-European: kneu - nut

    I can't find much on where the -culus suffix originated, which seams to be the the place we would want to look if trying to tie the pronunciation of nuclear to the earliest etymological root.

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