Every year, he presents the "Experiential Learning Award" on Honors Night, and 
he can't pronounce it either. He says Experential Award. He's a Cajun from 
Abbeville, and they pronounce everything oddly.

Jeffery

On Nov 4, 2010, at 2:32 PM, Miserere wrote:

> Maybe it's just me, but if you're going to be Dean at a college that
> includes Nuclear Medicine, the first question at the interview for the
> job should be "can you pronounce 'nuclear' for us, please?" If they
> can't, they don't get the job. Yeah, I'd be that draconian.
> 
> I took a graduate Nuclear Astrophysics course taught by my supervisor
> and she hated "nucular". There was a guy in the class who used it and
> she spent the whole semester correcting him until he eventually came
> around to saying it right.
> 
> Seriously, I need to get that T-shirt  :-D
> 
> 
>  --M.
> 
> 
> On 4 November 2010 14:40, Jeffery Smith <jsmith...@bellsouth.net> wrote:
>> As a full time biologist, they use it when talking about the nucleus of an 
>> atom and also as the nucleus of a cell. My cell physiology professor from 
>> 1970 used to blow a gasket when a student asked about the nuculus.
>> 
>> The Dean of Allied Health at my college can't pronounce it either, so he 
>> just says "Nuke Med" for nuclear medicine.
>> 
>> The worst, though, was the Nuclear Medicine Department at Tulane Medical 
>> School. They ordered a sign for the door, and it came back as "Unclear 
>> Medicine Lab". They thought it was cute, and kept it on the door.
>> 
>> Jeffery
>> 
>> On Nov 4, 2010, at 12:48 PM, Miserere wrote:
>> 
>>> On 3 November 2010 17:22, Jeffery Smith <jsmith...@bellsouth.net> wrote:
>>>> Gaaa! Nuclear, not new-cue-lar!
>>>> 
>>>> Oh well, Carter and Bush II couldn't pronounce it either.
>>>> 
>>>> Jeffery
>>> 
>>> As a one-time nuclear physicist (sort of), this is a pet peeve of
>>> mine. We should get one of these T-shirts, Jeff:
>>> 
>>> http://rlv.zcache.com/nucular_is_now_pronounced_nuclear_tshirt-p2350035787086046633370_400.jpg
>>> 
>>> Men's version, of course.
>>> 
>>> As for the photos, they frighten me...
>>> 
>>> 
>>>  --M.
> 
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