Uranus

[Jonathan Jarvis]

Which is it:

(1) Yur run us

(2) Your anus

 

[JackRT]

Which is it:

(1) Yur run us

(2) Your anus

2

 

[grasping the after wind]

Which is it:

(1) Yur run us

(2) Your anus

Has there ever been a question about it? I have yet to hear anyone suggesting No.1 as the correct function for Uranus. Everyone knows that No.2 would be properly the province of Uranus.

 

[durangodawood]

Lets call the whole thing off.

 

[freezerman2000]

Sorry,I couldn't resist!

 

[Warden_of_the_Storm]

Has there ever been a question about it? I have yet to hear anyone suggesting No.1 as the correct function for Uranus. Everyone knows that No.2 would be properly the province of Uranus.

I do think it's a national thing, since in Britain, I remember being taught that the first pronunciation was the right one. Although of course, in high school, you don't really want a lesson disrupted by students giggling every time the teacher says 'your anus, do you?

 

[LaSorcia]

Like urine-ous is much better? Just rename the thing lol.

 

[freezerman2000]

Like urine-ous is much better? Just rename the thing lol.

Just don't let it get Pluto-ed..AV would have a field day!

 

[RickG]

Like urine-ous is much better? Just rename the thing lol.

Actually that is the correct pronunciation of it (yoo r-uh-nuh s).

 

[grasping the after wind]

Actually that is the correct pronunciation of it (yoo r-uh-nuh s).

Uranus self identifies as UR A' nus so I'm afraid you will just have to accept it.

 

[Gracchus]

It is oo-run-oos (Latin: Uranus) from the Greek Ouranos. Illiterate morons use pronunciation (1), and half-wits attempting wit, use pronunciation (2). Ouranos was the Greek god of the sky. The Roman equivalent was Caelus.

 

[Chesterton]

It is oo-run-oos (Latin: Uranus) from the Greek Ouranos. Illiterate morons use pronunciation (1), and half-wits attempting wit, use pronunciation (2). Ouranos was the Greek god of the sky. The Roman equivalent was Caelus.

That's the stupidest, snobbiest thing I've heard all day. As if an English speaker should pronounce "Paris" as it is pronounced in French, but worse because at least there are still Frenchmen around.
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Personally, whenever I give a lengthy lecture on Uranus, I switch back and forth. The first 3 or 4 times I say "yur run us", then unexpectedly switch once to "your anus", and then repeat that process. It catches the listeners off-guard and provides for maximum giggle effect.

 

[Gracchus]

That's the stupidest, snobbiest thing I've heard all day. As if an English speaker should pronounce "Paris" as it is pronounced in French, but worse because at least there are still Frenchmen around.
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Personally, whenever I give a lengthy lecture on Uranus, I switch back and forth. The first 3 or 4 times I say "yur run us", then unexpectedly switch once to "your anus", and then repeat that process. It catches the listeners off-guard and provides for maximum giggle effect.

And, no doubt, in art class you finger paint with diaper pudding! You must wow the preschoolers.

 

[Jonathan Jarvis]

And there's more

I heard Sir Richard Attenborough on the radio yesterday referring to Diplodocus
as Dip Low Docus not Dip Plod Icus.

 

[Gracchus]

And there's more

I heard Sir Richard Attenborough on the radio yesterday referring to Diplodocus
as Dip Low Docus not Dip Plod Icus.

Anyone can mispronounce an unfamiliar word. It takes a special kind of adult to go for toilet humor, and stale unoriginal toilet humor at that.

 

[durangodawood]

And there's more

I heard Sir Richard Attenborough on the radio yesterday referring to Diplodocus
as Dip Low Docus not Dip Plod Icus.

lol @ scientists!
Cant get their story straight.

 

[Justatruthseeker]

Which is it:

(1) Yur run us

(2) Your anus

Neither, it is:

Ur-a-nus

 

[Chesterton]

Anyone can mispronounce an unfamiliar word. It takes a special kind of adult to go for toilet humor, and stale unoriginal toilet humor at that.

Au contraire, it takes a special kind of adult to say what you just said. And, someone once noted that Christianity can almost be deduced from the fact that men make crude jokes.

 

[Gracchus]

And there's more: I heard Sir Richard Attenborough on the radio yesterday referring to Diplodocus
as Dip Low Docus not Dip Plod Icus.

lol @ scientists!
Cant get their story straight.

Well, seeker durangodawood, if you had sought a little further you might have found this:
"Richard Attenborough
Actor
Richard Samuel Attenborough, Baron Attenborough, CBE Kt was an English actor, film director, film producer, entrepreneur and politician. He was the President of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and the British Academy of Film and Television Arts." --- Wikipedia

Sir Richard Attenborough was not a scientist. Scientists can get their story straight?

 

[durangodawood]

Well, seeker durangodawood, if you had sought a little further you might have found this:
"Richard Attenborough
Actor
Richard Samuel Attenborough, Baron Attenborough, CBE Kt was an English actor, film director, film producer, entrepreneur and politician. He was the President of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and the British Academy of Film and Television Arts." --- Wikipedia

Sir Richard Attenborough was not a scientist. Scientists can get their story straight?

Well if an actor can be president, one could certainly be a scientist.