I've heard it pronounced that way, but then Beavis & Butthead still connect
it with urine.
How about oo-RAH-noos? With a trilled "r"? That should be different enough.
(Not that anything we decide here will change the inevitable...)
-----Original Message-----
From: Adam Schabtach [mailto:
adam@...]
Sent: Tuesday, 24 September, 2002 1:02 PM
To: MOTM Forum All
Subject: Re: [motm] Uranus (was: Name That Modular!)
> 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