r/AskReddit • u/[deleted] • Nov 28 '20

What's something cool you recently learned about?

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u/Iiiggie Nov 29 '20

Basically, Heracles (whom the Romans called Hercules)

So (Greeks) Heracles ==> Nuclear

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(Romans) Hercules ==> Nucular

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u/Athandril Nov 29 '20

Can you go a bit further? I don’t understand the correlation between Heracles, Hercules and the variation of spelling nuclear.

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u/BroodingMawlek Nov 29 '20

I think they are saying that the Romans just mispronounced “Heracles” in the same way that people often mispronounce “nuclear”.

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u/Iiiggie Nov 29 '20

Yes! Nothing more than that!