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Subject: Re: [motm] Uranus (was: Name That Modular!)

From: Adam Schabtach <adam@...>
Date: 2002-09-24

> Yeah, that's a planet that perennially gets giggles in grade school classes.
> Any English-speaking space comedy film seems required to point out the
> ostensible humor in that name as well.

I had a Classics professor in college who said that this particular Greek
deity's name could be more accurately pronounced "UR-an-os" rather than
"yer-AYN-us", thus potentially saving the composure of thousands of
grade-school children every year.

--Adam