we have included that pronunciation in our Collegiate Dictionary. We give four possible pronunciations of “nuclear” in the Collegiate: \ˈnü-klē-ər\ (NEW-klee-ur), \ˈnyü-klē-ər\ (NYOO-klee-ur), \ˈnü-kyə-lər\ (NOO-cue-lur), and \ˈnyü-kyə-lər\ (NYOO-cue-lur). Those last two—the shudder-inducing \-kyə-lər\ pronunciations—are preceded by an obelus (÷), which is our shorthand way of marking nonstandard but widely used pronunciations in our dictionaries. In the event that you don’t know what the obelus is for,*8 we have a short usage paragraph at “nuclear” that tells you right away that the
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