# Nuke-u-lure -Nuclear/ Poosh the Feesh **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 5, 2003, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nuke-u-lure-nuclear-poosh-the-feesh/179891 "2003-06-05T18:30:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![heygeno](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e9a140/32.png) [@heygeno](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/heygeno)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2003, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nuke-u-lure-nuclear-poosh-the-feesh/179891/1 "2003-06-05T18:30:41Z")
I live in Central Ohio. My first wife’s family used to tease me because I said -wash- not warsh. If you say “warsh” you also say FEESH,DEESH,WEESH,DE-SEESION,POOSH,BOOSH AND NUKE-U-LAR. I have read that this form of pronunciation started in Southern Ohio. I love the fact that New England isn’t alone in odd pronunciation of words. Are there other words out there that I would get a kick out of ? ---
**Author:** ![MLS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/919ad9/32.png) [@MLS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MLS)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2003, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nuke-u-lure-nuclear-poosh-the-feesh/179891/2 "2003-06-05T19:19:05Z")
My sister and I (raised in New Jersey) used to tease our mother (raised in Pennsylvania) because she insisted that the national symbol is an “iggle.” “No, mom, it’s a EEEEagle. Long E. EEEEE” She (and all her family) also called a little brook a “crick,” but called a muscle spasm a “creek.” Whereas we knew you get a crick in your back, but you wade in a creek. ---
**Author:** ![World\_Eater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f04885/32.png) [@World\_Eater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/World_Eater)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2003, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nuke-u-lure-nuclear-poosh-the-feesh/179891/3 "2003-06-05T20:40:50Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by heygeno \* > **FEESH,DEESH,WEESH,DE-SEESION,POOSH,BOOSH** What are these words supposed to mean? ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2003, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nuke-u-lure-nuclear-poosh-the-feesh/179891/4 "2003-06-05T21:12:32Z")
Fish, dish, wish, decision, and I don’t know about the last two. ---
**Author:** ![rjung](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/45deac/32.png) [@rjung](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rjung)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2003, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nuke-u-lure-nuclear-poosh-the-feesh/179891/5 "2003-06-05T23:26:20Z")
Push, bush. ---
**Author:** ![AskNott](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asknott/32/5790_2.png) [@AskNott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AskNott)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2003, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nuke-u-lure-nuclear-poosh-the-feesh/179891/6 "2003-06-06T00:02:01Z")
Here in central Indiana, I’ve heard: After ya warsh, ya rench to get the soap out. Mom, from rural Ohio, called that thing with 88 keys a pee-OW-no. Al from Middletown calls it a pee-ANN-a. You write with an ink-pin. Ouch! You stuck me wit a PEE-un. Poosh and boosh are occasional here, usually it’s push and bush. We can say President of the United States here, not PreznyNigh’States, as some prominent politicos do. A really big rain is a gully washer, but one farm boy I know says golly woosh. ---
**Author:** ![heygeno](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e9a140/32.png) [@heygeno](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/heygeno)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2003, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nuke-u-lure-nuclear-poosh-the-feesh/179891/7 "2003-06-06T00:21:09Z")
AskNott You have me howling… I have heard all of those too. ---
**Author:** ![tracer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tracer/32/20578_2.png) [@tracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tracer)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2003, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nuke-u-lure-nuclear-poosh-the-feesh/179891/8 "2003-06-06T00:27:35Z")
When my dad was in the Air Force, he got roped into a **heated** debate over whether iron is supposed to be pronounced “eye-run” (like in “hey look at that eyeball with legs!”) or “ahrn” (like in “Schwarzenegger”). When they asked him, he said he always pronounced it “eye-urn” (like in “what’s your weekly salary?”). ---
**Author:** ![dantheman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dantheman/32/9421_2.png) [@dantheman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dantheman)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2003, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nuke-u-lure-nuclear-poosh-the-feesh/179891/9 "2003-06-06T00:54:28Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by MLS \* > \*\*My sister and I (raised in New Jersey) used to tease our mother (raised in Pennsylvania) because she insisted that the national symbol is an “iggle.” “No, mom, it’s a EEEEagle. Long E. EEEEE” > > She (and all her family) also called a little brook a “crick,” but called a muscle spasm a “creek.” Whereas we knew you get a crick in your back, but you wade in a creek. \*\* The local football team is the Fluffya Iggles. E! A! G! L! E! S! IGGLES! PS: you forgot about the ruff. ---
**Author:** ![heygeno](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e9a140/32.png) [@heygeno](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/heygeno)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2003, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nuke-u-lure-nuclear-poosh-the-feesh/179891/10 "2003-06-06T01:06:38Z")
you guys have me cracking -up. Klum-bus, Ahia— (Columbus ,Ohio) Black street kids(in Columbus) said “ast” in the sixties-- Let me ast you — TV has corrected that. Now they say ax. ---
**Author:** ![NDP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ndp/32/55_2.png) [@NDP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NDP)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2003, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nuke-u-lure-nuclear-poosh-the-feesh/179891/11 "2003-06-06T01:39:21Z")
Haygeno, how does your wife’s family pronounce [“job”](http://www.homestarrunner.com/cantsayjob.html)? ---
**Author:** ![thi6](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e99b99/32.png) [@thi6](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thi6)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2003, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nuke-u-lure-nuclear-poosh-the-feesh/179891/12 "2003-06-06T02:08:21Z")
FEESH,DEESH,WEESH,DE-SEESION,POOSH,BOOSH AND NUKE-U-LAR. That reminds me of when I was 11 years old, and my dad was washing the car. He sent me into the house for the deeshsoap, and I had no idea what he wanted. I’d lived with the man my entire life, and I still couldn’t understand him at times. He grew up in Indiana, but we moved around because he was in the Army, so his accent isn’t very noticeable. There are still a few words where is comes out, like when it’s time to warsh the deeshes. My grandmother says doll as dall. I have no accent at all 😉 (at least not that one, you betcha.) ---
**Author:** ![heygeno](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e9a140/32.png) [@heygeno](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/heygeno)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2003, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nuke-u-lure-nuclear-poosh-the-feesh/179891/13 "2003-06-06T02:13:44Z")
That’s EX— I was a child groom 33 yrs. ago. Do you mean JAW-B ? I have an old friend from Kentucky. --She— would say it that way. She would also say TAR-ARN…(tire iron) .If her car wasn’t running she would say it was " tore-up " My ex’s family were “Columbus Hillbillies”. Not quite that country… at least 1 generation removed from the hills. ---
**Author:** ![wolf\_meister](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolf_meister/32/15202_2.png) [@wolf\_meister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolf_meister)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2003, 3:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nuke-u-lure-nuclear-poosh-the-feesh/179891/14 "2003-06-06T03:53:45Z")
There are variations in the pronuncation of many words. Yes, I live in Boston where 1/2 = “harf” and when something is funny, you “larf”. However, to pronounce “nuclear” as NOOK-YOU-LAR isn’t just a difference in pronunciation - it is just plain wrong. Look at the way it is spelled - NUC-LE-AR. So, where the Hell does that “you” come from? And where does the “LEE” disappear to? It’s hard to believe President Jimmy Carter who was stationed on US Navy NUC-LE-AR submarines for many years still gave it the incorrect pronunciation. Also, George W Bush pronounces it wrong but it is not too tough to believe that. He also says “subliminable” - not an alternative pronunciation - it is just wrong. Sorry, for a snooty Bostonian to be so adamant about this, but we do have an image to maintain. And as someone once said “In Boston, even the owls say WHOM”. LOL ---
**Author:** ![Hobie\_the\_One](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e99b99/32.png) [@Hobie\_the\_One](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hobie_the_One)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2003, 1:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nuke-u-lure-nuclear-poosh-the-feesh/179891/15 "2003-06-06T13:06:23Z")
Don’t get me started [again](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=170635). New kew ler is an affront to God and man.😃 Now I gotta go warsh the car.😛 ---
**Author:** ![23skidoo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/2/f04885/32.png) [@23skidoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/23skidoo)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2003, 1:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nuke-u-lure-nuclear-poosh-the-feesh/179891/16 "2003-06-06T13:27:50Z")
For some folks, nukular is just more comfterble to say. ---
**Author:** ![curly\_chick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7ba0ec/32.png) [@curly\_chick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/curly_chick)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2003, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nuke-u-lure-nuclear-poosh-the-feesh/179891/17 "2003-06-06T13:48:09Z")
I have a question: Is it only Americanos from certain places who pronounce nuclear in the manner so reviled by many? If so, how do the chemists, biologists and physicists from these places pronounce nucleus? Nuke-u-lus? ---
**Author:** ![wolf\_meister](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolf_meister/32/15202_2.png) [@wolf\_meister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolf_meister)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2003, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nuke-u-lure-nuclear-poosh-the-feesh/179891/18 "2003-06-06T14:03:08Z")
I agree with Hobie. NOOK-YOU-LAR is an intolerable obscenity that must be eradicated !!! How far does a misprononunciation have to deteriorate until it is finally deemed unacceptable ? For example, methyl alcohol must be the same as ethyl alcohol - just one letter different right? The difference is fatal as a matter of fact. ---
**Author:** ![MLS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/919ad9/32.png) [@MLS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MLS)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2003, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nuke-u-lure-nuclear-poosh-the-feesh/179891/19 "2003-06-06T15:55:32Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by dantheman \* > \*\*The local football team is the Fluffya Iggles. > > E! A! G! L! E! S! IGGLES! > > PS: you forgot about the ruff. \*\* Oh, yes. The ruff. And my Grandmom used to tell us to drink “pru-un” (prune) juice. ---
**Author:** ![heygeno](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e9a140/32.png) [@heygeno](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/heygeno)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2003, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nuke-u-lure-nuclear-poosh-the-feesh/179891/20 "2003-06-06T16:08:39Z")
Put it out at the “curve”. When you’re done with that, put it in the " zink " [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nuke-u-lure-nuclear-poosh-the-feesh/179891.md?page=2)