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Uranus or Uranus?
Is it Ur-Uh-Nus or Ur-Anus? Discuss!
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according to Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, tenth edition, either (or is it either) is proper...
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Pot-aye-tow....pot-ah-tow?
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When I was a kid, it was pronounced Ur-Anus and then one day I noticed that everyone started pronouncing Ur-Uh-Nus. Maybe people started feeling self-conscious about saying -Anus ?
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Asimov gave a suggestion for the pronounciation of "The Unmentionable Planet" in an non-fiction essay with that title. Instead of "your anus" or "urinous" (meaning of or pertaining to urine), he suggested "you ran us" as the least "offensive" way of saying the 7th planet's name.
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I perfer Ur-REC-tum.
/futurama |
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REC-tum? It damn near KILLED him! emm... sorry, couldn't resist |
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