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To: Red Badger

A big space crash likely made Uranus lopsided

Phys.org ^ | Dec 21, 2018 | Seth Borenstein

Its name often generates juvenile humor when it is wrongly pronounced like a body part.

(It's correctly pronounced YUR'-uh-nus.)

"No one laughs when I say Uranus," NASA's Green said.

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13 posted on 12/21/2018 10:46:04 AM PST by ETL (Obama-Hillary, REAL Russia collusion! Uranium-One Deal, Missile Defense, Iran Deal, Nukes: Click ETL)
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To: ETL

My elementary teacher pronounced it as U-rain-ne-us.

I still think it sound better than the others, even though it doesnt sound like it is spelled.


18 posted on 12/21/2018 10:59:35 AM PST by VanDeKoik
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Lol. Urine..us.


20 posted on 12/21/2018 11:02:19 AM PST by dhs12345
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