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To: familyop
The older common pronunciation of Uranus was better.

What was it? Please post phonetically. I am curious.

16 posted on 10/29/2017 3:16:04 PM PDT by cpdiii (DECKHAND, ROUGHNECK, GEOLOGIST, PILOT, PHARMACIST, LIBERTARIAN The Constitution is worth dying for.)
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To: cpdiii

There are two choices given by the dictionaries (both Oxford and Merriam-Webster).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4WuwXZaGgo
(Merriam-Webster)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OnVXWrZV4yE
(Oxford)

How Do You Pronounce Uranus?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SQTKGXmITZg
“How do astronomers and scientists say the name of the 7th planet from the Sun?”

That’s the traditional, non-libertine way (Ur-in-us), which is also closer to the Greek but easier for Americans to say. Of the people from the sciences in the third video, the Lebanese in the medical school was the exception. Note his behavior. What a surprise. Enough said.


21 posted on 10/29/2017 6:41:26 PM PDT by familyop ("Welcome to Costco. I love you." --Costco greeter in the movie, "Idiocracy")
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