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To: Moonmad27
LOL! I see that you and I have the same sense of humor. EVERY time I read one of these stories I get sidetracked in laughing at the name!
14 posted on 12/31/2002 4:53:33 AM PST by Miss Marple
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To: Miss Marple
EVERY time I read one of these stories I get sidetracked in laughing at the name!

Isaac Asimov even wrote a small essay on the topic. He pointed out that the name "Uranus" was a cosmic joke no matter how you tried to pronounce it.

Said "yur-AIN-us", it sounds like "your anus".

But a short-lived attempt to change the pronunciation to "YUR-i-nus" was abandoned when it was realized that this was the same pronunciation as the word "urinous", which means "related to urine or urination".

So either way you look at it, the poor planet is going to be the, um, butt of jokes.

52 posted on 12/31/2002 11:22:43 AM PST by Dan Day
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