Bush's pronunciation of "nuclear" correct?

[nq:1]People on the newsgroups/blogs are defending Bush's pronunciation of the word nuclear as correct and citing the below link. Some are statingthat it's been a correct alternative for years. Is this so? http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/audio.pl?nuclea02.wav=nuclear[/nq]
President Eisenhow

[nq:1]People on the newsgroups/blogs are defending Bush's pronunciation of the word nuclear as correct and citing the below link. Some are stating that it's been a correct alternative for years. Is this so? http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/audio.pl?nuclea02.wav=nuclear[/nq]
It is current, es

[nq:2]People on the newsgroups/blogs are defending Bush's pronunciation of the word nuclear as correct and citing the below link. Some are stating[/nq]
[nq:1]that[/nq]
[nq:2]it's been a correct alternative for years. Is this so? http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/audio.pl?nuclea02.wav=nuclear

[nq:2]that[/nq]
[nq:1]This is misleading. That pronunciation is given in symbols at http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?book=Dictionary&va=nuclear It is preceded by an obelus (here represented by ... we can say for sure is that the Merriam-Webster editors consider the pronunciation t

[nq:1]People on the newsgroups/blogs are defending Bush's pronunciation of the word nuclear as correct and citing the below link. http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/audio.pl?nuclea02.wav=nuclear[/nq]
I can only say that I'm really disappointed with Merriam-Webster.

I note that the spo

[nq:1]I also note that the U.S. President in question was forced by his wily opponent on at least one occasion to pronounce "nuclear" in last night's debate, and, I thought, handled it pretty well. Certainly better than the gentleman reading for M-W.[/nq]
Unless my ears deceived me, he pronounced it nu-cu-lar at least twice during the debate.
Jeff

[nq:2]People on the newsgroups/blogs are defending Bush's pronunciation of the word nuclear as correct and citing the below link. http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/audio.pl?nuclea02.wav=nuclear[/nq]
[nq:1]I can only say that I'm really disappointed with Merriam-Webster. I note that the spoken

[nq:2]I also note that the U.S. President in question was ... pretty well. Certainly better than the gentleman reading for M-W.[/nq]
[nq:1]Unless my ears deceived me, he pronounced it nu-cu-lar at least twice during the debate. Jeff[/nq]
That's what I heard.
We had this discussion on aue a few weeks ago and Bill B. quoted that same M-W Online citation. I forget who said, "that rendered

[nq:2]English speakers commonly reverse the order of multiple consonants e.g. ... of the proposition that they ought to be the same.[/nq]
Because it's an agreed code, we should stick to it as far as possible. I have just coined the term "nucule", with reference to a small nut-like seed; it will be intelligible internationally. One of its corresponding adjectives is "nucular". I will now look i

[nq:1]over the wishes of the majority on other issues: why not hold outfor "new-clee-ar", if that is the majority pronunciation?[/nq]
Oh, sod! I meant " isn't ". Next time, I'll pause for a moment before deriding some politician's slip-up on live TV; but only for a moment.

Mike.