Actually, there are five, not three:

Bow (as in the weapon)
Low
Mow
Row
Tow

But again, this is an acronym we're talking about, not an actual word. Who cares how it's pronounced?

And who the heck always wants to go with the majority anyways?


Siri

One can not simply break down a part of a word and consider it to mean one thing by itself. Imagine doing that to the chinese way of writing. Clearly noted, many words are only pronounced differently because of colloquilism(sp?...it's early). One also has to consider the alphabet system and the whole phonetic system in which we would extract one word and Americanize it - if you will. Clearly there are accent marks and stress marks and the typical "everybody knows these basic foundation words". These reside in any culture no matter how basic. So with that, I do not see how one can take the part of the word guk and pronounce it ****. I guess this is part of the debate on how we tend to mispronounce or how we tend to mislead ourselves. But if you are giving a historical anecdote and opinion of how the Americans took a term and made it their own then that part is true. But you also have to consider the make-up of the western and eastern movements at that time which I think you are grasping only somewhat. During the periods of 1965-1975, there was more of a imbedded stigma within the american society as a whole than there were in many third world countries when we refer to the education of the whole. The term "the mixing pot" relates to the widespread infestation of different foreigners who have sought refuge upon the american lands. This is entirely different from that infestation of the anglo-saxans of the earlier times who have raped and pillaged the lands away from the indians. Then we have your slaves both from Africa and Asia continents who took up a significant amount of the "american population". With our political and judicial sytem being governed by our social acceptances, we then began to outline what we as a whole would deem standard. This standard has always been a work in progress. Apart from that and more on topic, we would also have to gain insight and dig deeper into how our system has adopted the abridged and unabridged system of communication we call the american language. We can also find some sort of meaning as to how a society accepts a word based on their current mentality. Iq plays a rather large part in how one person perceives something to be from what is actually there. Call it an innate sense of self-discovery or what have you, but your typical uneducated person will most likely accept the easier to grasp terminology than anything else which most likely 9 times out of 10 is the wrong way to go. Ya can have your ill-educated sitting outside the corner-store drinking the "fotays" instead of forties. You can have your mass of illigitmates pronouncing vietnamese as vip-mo-nese. You can say that the veterans of a post war have come to use the word guk as ****. you can pronounce the word "the" as in dee or thu. But I say that this is a sign of our times, and it's bewildering to know that your "concept" of work clearly signifies one of the different levels of a pre-pubescent society( go anywhere in america where you can clearly find the uneduated and they will all share the same way of speaking, mannerisms, and so forth). Even to have your southern belles remain confederate while attempting to mock a liberated northern mixed culture is a joke. You take this and add in the diversity of other influencing cultures in all regions and you have one %#$@ as an acronym known as the USA......""it just depends on your concept of the work"". Oh and did you know that some studies are leading to the idea that more of your common diseases and abnormalities can be caused from imbreeding? Take this and the idea of what Hitler was trying to do and filter it down into our society today and how we have mixed that up furthermore by allowing ourselves the pleaures of crossbreeding. You get not one but many of the negatives. Just imagine two races prominent in their own features being imbred over the last few centuries. Now have both intermix and splash on your environmental hazzards and you have one deranged population of people who -no matter what they hear or read- will be left in the dark. And as history has a way of repeating itself, I am sure many others will -if not be leaders- be followers of a pitiful society where we let the most educated of our men lead us with false hopes and meanings only to define and redefine more the errors which will be there....kinda like what we are doing now my imbred brother, or is that brutha?