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From YKTTW Working Title: I See Uranus
Red Wren: I don't understand how the two pronunciations are any different, can someone give me vowel example words? (Like cat and father, or something.)
They aren't different. The proper correct original greek pronunciation is (surprise surprise) phonetic. U-ra-nus. that's oo-rah-noos. I'm changing it.
Duckay: The two pronunciations given were bad examples of how to write it, but it's the difference between 'you-rain-us' and 'your-anus', basically. Or so I thought. Possibly how much difference there actually is depends on dialect/accent.
Epiblast: I've never heard "ooh-rah-noos" in English in my life. I have heard "yur-uh-nus" quite a bit, though, and was under the impression that that was the generally accepted pronunciation (along with "yur-AY-nus"). "Ooh-rah-noos" isn't even listed as an acceptable pronunciation in my dictionary. It would certainly be an appropriate pronunciation in its language of origin, but not in English. The names for planets are given Anglicized pronunciations in English (Jupiter is certainly not pronounced the same in English as it is in Latin, for instance), and so "Yur-uh-nus" and "Yur-ay-nus" are acceptable; "Ooh-rah-noos" is not.
