When someone from Britain speaks, Americans hear a "British accent"...

[Terry Hancock]

On Friday 07 October 2005 01:31 pm, Dave Hansen wrote:
> >Don't get me started on _that_ one.  I found it particularly
> >horrifying that Jimmy Carter pronounced it "nucular" -- he had
> >studied nuclear engineering at the naval acadamy, and should at
> >least be able pronounce the word.

Well, there's your problem. He learned from engineers. Engineers
can't speak English.  I was instructed in my "Engineering Statics"
class that a three-dimensional structure connecting non-coplanar
points in space was called a "tetrahedragon".

I am not kidding.  This actually happened.

Cheers,
Terry

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