# 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:** 7\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![pasunejen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/58956e/32.png) [@pasunejen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pasunejen)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2003, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nuke-u-lure-nuclear-poosh-the-feesh/179891/21 "2003-06-06T16:39:02Z")
1. Saying new-kew-lar instead of new-klee-ar is often just something people learn because it’s a part of their dialect. Some people are really bothered by the way they learned to pronounce it and correct it; some don’t, and in most cases it doesn’t say much about them. I know several very bright and well-educated people who say it the wrong way, and while I do a double-take every time I hear it, I’ve learned only to be bothered by it when I know it’s done out of plain old ignorance. ---
**Author:** ![pasunejen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/58956e/32.png) [@pasunejen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pasunejen)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2003, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nuke-u-lure-nuclear-poosh-the-feesh/179891/22 "2003-06-06T16:41:46Z")
1. Saying new-kew-lar instead of new-klee-ar is often just something people learn because it’s a part of their dialect. Some people are really bothered by the way they learned to pronounce it and correct it; some don’t, and in most cases it doesn’t say much about them. I know several very bright and well-educated people who say it the wrong way, and while I do a double-take every time I hear it, I’ve learned only to be bothered by it when I know it’s done out of plain old ignorance. 2. As far as strange pronunciations go, you might be interested in a few (out of the very, very many) common in Bawlmerese (Baltimore-ese, basically): larnix (larynx) erl (oil) fitty (fifty) hunnert (hundred) I could go on, but I think you get the point. ---
**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, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nuke-u-lure-nuclear-poosh-the-feesh/179891/23 "2003-06-06T19:03:59Z")
> [@](#): > > New kew ler is an affront to God and man. > > Now I gotta go warsh the car. Be sure to do a good jorb. ---
**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 7, 2003, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nuke-u-lure-nuclear-poosh-the-feesh/179891/24 "2003-06-07T01:29:05Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by MLS \* > \*\*Oh, yes. The ruff. > > And my Grandmom used to tell us to drink “pru-un” (prune) juice. \*\* And the local store, the Ackame. ---
**Author:** ![i\_like\_bacon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/54ee81/32.png) [@i\_like\_bacon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/i_like_bacon)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2003, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nuke-u-lure-nuclear-poosh-the-feesh/179891/25 "2003-06-07T14:36:13Z")
my husband insists on saying “eye talian” drives me mad!!! my grandmother always called it “i oh way” and a guy at work calls a syringe a sernge. explain that one! of course he is the same one that uses the word warsh. i am guilty to tho, find myself saying “git” instead of “get”. i know a few people that insist on adding the letter s to the end of certain store names such as “walmarts” and “kmarts”. funny thing, tho, i was vehemently swearing up and down that people in minnesota \*\* do not \*\* sound like that movie “fargo” and then i happened to be in the grocery store and heard someone sounding like kirstie alley in **Drop Dead Gorgeous** ---
**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 7, 2003, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nuke-u-lure-nuclear-poosh-the-feesh/179891/26 "2003-06-07T14:47:18Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by i like bacon \* > \*\* > > funny thing, tho, i was vehemently swearing up and down that people in minnesota \*\* do not \*\* sound like that movie “fargo” > \*\* Well, I should say not. Fargo is in North Dakota! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![heygeno](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e9a140/32.png) [@heygeno](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/heygeno)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2003, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nuke-u-lure-nuclear-poosh-the-feesh/179891/27 "2003-06-07T16:12:50Z")
If you say EYE-talian …chances are you say Missoura and Cincinatta… I have a black friend (raised in Col. Oh.) who says BUB— as in lightbub. I know that IS Southern. Soil as in dirt = SOL///or SOLE [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nuke-u-lure-nuclear-poosh-the-feesh/179891.md?page=1)