> 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
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Re: [motm] Uranus (was: Name That Modular!)
2002-09-24 by Adam Schabtach