I've already surrendered to the notion that "it's too late".

"Embrace the horror", as one of my friends is fond of saying.

I've never met anyone with a nuclear engineering degree or experience in the industry say nucular, ever. And they did have a first class program of Nuclear engineering at Iowa State University for a very long time. I have met many people who worked in the DOE lab, and have a couple of friends who still do.

Not saying it didn't happen, mind you, but I find it hard to believe that anyone in the industry or academia involved in splitting atom nuclei would say that.

I even have a Tennessee "mountain william" friend who worked at Oak Ridge, and is as down home as it gets and he says it right too.

But I digress.

There is nothing we can do about the shift in language, that is most assuredly true. Perhaps we should endeavor to make "kilt" a much more frequently used word ?