George W. Bush suffers from “epenthesis”
Who would have thought that saying nucular (or nukular) had a technical name?
From Merriam-Webster’s word of the day:
epenthesis ih-PEN-thuh-siss noun
: the insertion or development of a sound or letter in the body of a word[…]If you say “athlete” as “ath-a-lete,” you’ve committed
epenthesis.[…]
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