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From: steve@jplgodo.UUCP (Steve Schlaifer x3171 156/224)
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Subject: Re: Pronouncing Uranus
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Date: Thu, 23-Jan-86 12:40:22 EST
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Posted: Thu Jan 23 12:40:22 1986
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> In article <188@ncs-med.UUCP> bcg@ncs-med.UUCP (Brian C. Grande) writes:
> >
> >  Around January 24 Voyager 2 will encounter the planet Uranus (Yoo'-renus).
> 
> Note the above reference to the pronunciation of "Uranus". This is how I
> have always pronounced it. Has anyone else noticed that most TV news
> people, when reporting on this, have been saying it as "you-ray'-nus"?
> 
> (I suppose they are all terrified of ending up on blooper shows from
> pronouncing it "your-anus". :-)
> 
> Will

According to Webster's Seventh Collegiate Dictionary, the preferred (first)
pronunciation is Yur'-e-nes (where the e is like in kitten and the u like foot).
But, the second pronunciation is Yu-ra'-nes (long a, e and u as above).  The TV
news people who use the second pronunciation are at least using it correctly.

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