Mark D Lew wrote: [snip]
and less educated. For counter-example, the word envelope is pronounced like "on-velope" by roughly the same percentage of Americans who say "nucular", but you rarely hear complaints about it. That could be because the "on-velope" sayers are mostly in the Northeast, which has traditionally been the socially dominant region.
Or simply the region which takes the most delight in demeaning others for different pronunciations.
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