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kkuhlken
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 Posted: Mon Jan 18, 2016 8:02 pm Post subject: YOUR-uh-nus or ur-AY-nus |
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I fell out laughing this morning as my daughter was listening to her Brain Pop video about planets. Direct quote (using ur-AY-nus):
"Uranus is a gassy planet with two thin rings"
Ohhhh myyyyy
How do YOU pronounce it?
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Mike Harrison
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The New Oxford American Dictionary says:
| Quote: | | Uranus |ˈyo͝orənəs – Greek Mythology – a personification of heaven or the sky, the most ancient of the Greek gods and first ruler of the universe. |
I believe the scientific community echoes this pronunciation. It does sound like it would be the way to speak the name of a Greek god. However, some decades ago, the other pronunciation was how it was spoken in my science classes.
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Lee Gordon
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| Posted: Tue Jan 19, 2016 12:56 am Post subject: |
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It's yur-AY-nus if you're making corny jokes.
It's YUR-uh-nus if you're discussing astronomy.
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DougVox
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| Posted: Tue Jan 19, 2016 7:15 am Post subject: Re: YOUR-uh-nus or ur-AY-nus |
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| kkuhlken wrote: | | How do YOU pronounce it? |
Easy. It's "the planet between Saturn and Neptune."
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Eddie Eagle
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| Posted: Tue Jan 19, 2016 8:37 am Post subject: |
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| Bein a Southern boy u don't have ta thank too hard to know how I sez it. |
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Bruce
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Of course when I'm speaking about darker moments in our past I usually describe/mispronounce them as being in "the annals of history". 
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