{"id":3104,"date":"2005-01-27T18:17:48","date_gmt":"2005-01-28T02:17:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2005\/01\/27\/a-pronounced-deficiency-in-iq-metafilter\/"},"modified":"2019-12-12T14:02:02","modified_gmt":"2019-12-12T22:02:02","slug":"a-pronounced-deficiency-in-iq-metafilter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2005\/01\/27\/a-pronounced-deficiency-in-iq-metafilter\/","title":{"rendered":"A pronounced deficiency in IQ | Metafilter"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:9095,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.metafilter.com\\\/mefi\\\/39046#836071&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20081201173201\\\/http:\\\/\\\/www.metafilter.com\\\/mefi\\\/39046&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.metafilter.com\\\/39046\\\/A-pronounced-deficiency-in-IQ&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:8822,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/click.linksynergy.com\\\/fs-bin\\\/click?id=xLsJkztrnNY&amp;offerid=78941.10000002&amp;subid=0&amp;type=4&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<blockquote><p>\n  Something interesting (sorry if I&#8217;m repeating someone above): &#8216;nuclear&#8217; is the adjectival form of &#8216;nucleus&#8217;, which comes from the Latin &#8216;nuculeus&#8217;, from &#8216;nucula&#8217; the diminutive of &#8216;nux&#8217;, meaning &#8216;nut&#8217;. So the at some point the &#8216;u&#8217; between the &#8216;c&#8217; and &#8216;l&#8217; was dropped (and at that point would have probably been considered a mispronunciation).<\/p>\n<p>  My theory &#8211; it&#8217;s Bush&#8217;s comprehensive knowledge of and fluency in Latin that leads to his pronunciation.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.metafilter.com\/mefi\/39046#836071\" title=\"A pronounced deficiency in IQ | Metafilter\">adamdegen<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/click.linksynergy.com\/fs-bin\/click?id=xLsJkztrnNY&amp;offerid=78941.10000002&amp;subid=0&amp;type=4\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" width=\"61\" height=\"15\" alt=\"iTunes\" src=\"http:\/\/images.apple.com\/itunesaffiliates\/logos\/iTunes_sm_bdg61x15.png\"><\/a> &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/click.linksynergy.com\/fs-bin\/stat?id=xLsJkztrnNY&amp;offerid=78941&amp;type=3&amp;subid=0&amp;tmpid=1826&amp;RD_PARM1=itms%253A%252F%252Fphobos.apple.com%252FWebObjects%252FMZSearch.woa%252Fwa%252Fcom.apple.jingle.search.DirectAction%252FadvancedSearchResults%253FartistTerm%253DOzric Tentacles%2526albumTerm=Arborescence%2526songTerm=Al-Salooq%26partnerId%3D30\">Al-Salooq<\/a>&#8221; by <a href=\"http:\/\/click.linksynergy.com\/fs-bin\/stat?id=xLsJkztrnNY&amp;offerid=78941&amp;type=3&amp;subid=0&amp;tmpid=1826&amp;RD_PARM1=itms%253A%252F%252Fphobos.apple.com%252FWebObjects%252FMZSearch.woa%252Fwa%252Fcom.apple.jingle.search.DirectAction%252FadvancedSearchResults%253FartistTerm%253DOzric Tentacles%26partnerId%3D30\">Ozric Tentacles<\/a> from the album <em><a href=\"http:\/\/click.linksynergy.com\/fs-bin\/stat?id=xLsJkztrnNY&amp;offerid=78941&amp;type=3&amp;subid=0&amp;tmpid=1826&amp;RD_PARM1=itms%253A%252F%252Fphobos.apple.com%252FWebObjects%252FMZSearch.woa%252Fwa%252Fcom.apple.jingle.search.DirectAction%252FadvancedSearchResults%253FartistTerm%253DOzric Tentacles%2526albumTerm=Arborescence%26partnerId%3D30\">Arborescence<\/a><\/em> (1994, 5:02).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My theory &#8211; it&#8217;s Bush&#8217;s comprehensive knowledge of and fluency in Latin that leads to his pronunciation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2042],"tags":[6,14,16],"class_list":["post-3104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-humor","tag-politics","tag-quotes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3104\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}