Nuclear

sodapop

The nuclear and specific mispronounced words irritate me as well. The other one is Febuary- it's FebRuary grrrr

Febuary gets me shouting at the radio too. Also libary instead of library. Quite agree about nucular.

Sorry Shep!

Here, interesting!
www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/aluminum-vs-aluminium#:~:text=They%20both%20date%20to%20the,of%20the%20English%2Dspeaking%20world.

They might be correct (or should I say 'accepted') in the US, but not here. Americans seem never to have got to grips with the way 'aluminium' is spelled. How they square the spelling with their pronunciation is beyond my limited understanding.

Blossoming

Don’t all Americans pronounce the word ‘nuclear’ as ‘nucular’? I shall have to Google it now.

George W Bush pronounced it like that.

Americans seem to say Aloo-min-um and not Aluminium - are both correct?

Nuclear worries me a lot more than how it is pronounced, tbh.

The nuclear and specific mispronounced words irritate me as well. The other one is Febuary- it's FebRuary grrrr

Because they are lazy ?

Artic and arctic - as well as nucular!

Wem-ber-ley

Don’t all Americans pronounce the word ‘nuclear’ as ‘nucular’? I shall have to Google it now.

... and pacific instead of specific.

And the footblers

Yes, that’s another. As you can see this was not a good start to my day!

Then there’s secertary and athaletics

Couldn’t agree more GSM. My pet hate is artitect instead of architect, which seems prevalent on the current crop of house makeover programmes.