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RE: eeuuw.

Laurence writes"
champ of them all
> is George W...Nucularman.  There are people around him who
> know how key
> words should be pronounced, but do they DARE correct or instruct him?

My favorite was when Ben Stein, pre-Ben's Stein's Money, was guesting on
Friends and was playing a college professor (very staid) teaching about
the solar system and planets.  The hecklers in the class kept asking him
questions where his answer needed to be, "...that would be Uranus (with
emphasis on the last syllable)" followed by well-timed giggles.

Bill O'Neill