Nov 20, 2017 · What is the name of the phonetic shift behind the common mispronunciation of the word nuclear (nucular)? Or, if the answer is "none", then I would appreciate learning the origin of the pronunciation.

Oct 31, 2017 · A nucular membrane begins to form around the whole group or around smaller groups or isolated chromosomes. Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club · 1870– OED notes that it used to be discouraged, but offers no judgment on the form: it is now commonly given as a variant in modern dictionaries.

May 9, 2019 · When we quote someone, we normally reproduce their words and meaning, not their pronunciation (unless the intent is to represent dialect -- this is usually only done in literature, not reporting). As an analogy, many people pronounce "nuclear" as "nucular". But if you were quoting someone like this, you would not use the latter spelling.

There was the following sentence in the article of Time magazine (November 21) titled, “Senate Democrats go ‘Nuclear’ to curb the filibuster”: “During the Bush Administration, Republicans threate...

Feb 1, 2012 · The fact that it's most often used with a subordinate clause doesn't detract from that. I maintain "supposably" sounds wrong because it's a phonetic derivative of "supposedly" in the same way "nucular" derives from "nuclear": a complex or uncommon consonant cluster being collapsed into a more familiar, easily pronounced one.

We've recently moved from New Zealand to New York City, and have noticed that many people (most of whom have good English) pronounce "ask" as "aks". For example: Could you please go aks her tomor...

Aug 15, 2019 · Interesting question. It looks like adjacent metathesis. But after that I'm at a loss to say why Norwegian doesn't act in the same way and could only wildly speculate that their is something about the structure of the Norwegian language in general which makes Pasketti as a possible word relatively unlikely as compared to English.

This reference states: The two words "wholistic" and "holistic" have very different meanings, but there is some confusion and they are often used in an incorrect manner. The two words have very

Aug 11, 2010 · In some podcasts (it seems the speaker was from California) I heard that the word "especially" was pronounced with "ks" sound like "ikspeshally". What was it likely to be, personal way of pronoun...

Every now and then I get caught out by a spellchecker around the word asterisk. I can accept that this is the correct spelling, however I hear a lot of people pronouncing it as asterix also. Is i...