Mr. Bob wrote:
"And while I've gotten used to "nu-cu-lar", I'll never be able to be
comfortable with "re-la-tor" as opposed to "re-al-tor". Even Joni says
"relator" when she's talking about Magdalene Laundries."
Bob, a humble question. Maybe the nurses or other health care professionals
on the list can answer it.
If reactors can be "nucular," can lungs riddled with TB be "tuburclear"??
Inquiring minds want to know.
Mary P.
P.S. My favorite "WHAAAT?" moment in advertising in the last five years are
so are those Slim-Fast ads which promise that their product will deliver
"calcium like in milk, protein (or something) like in fish." The
construction itself sounds "fishy" grammatically, but in addition to that,
isn't the nutrient either calcium, or not??
This kind of reminds me of one reviewer's comment on Madonna's "Like A
Virgin" release many years ago: "It's not false advertising. She never
said she *was* a virgin." ;-)
