Might it be culturally insensitive, at best, and fill-in-the-blank, at worst, in many situations to link intelligence with pronunciation of any particular word? Has it really come to that on a professional list? I would say how you pronounce something is tied almost entirely to where you were raised and how people spoke around you. In some cases, as a person's environment changes, their pronunciation may also change. Some politicians are even able to change the pronunciation of a word depending on who they are around and to whom they may be appealing. For a very interesting linguistic analysis of why this particular pronunciation is common, see: http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Transwiki:Nucular. You might want to hurry because the entry is "marked for deletion".
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