Some time back I was giving a talk during a school night - telescopes outside, slide projector inside, and I went through the pictures of all the planets.

After I came to U-ran-us a little girl of 10 or so asked me to repeat the name. After I did she asked me to repeat it again.

Being a crusty old curmudgeon I am not familiar with what scatological content may exist in a mind so young, but I think when the IAU was dealing with defining what a planet is, they could have done a re-name job on U-ran-us.

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Please don't, next thing you know they'll be screaming Uranus isn't a planet because its equater is all but perpendicular to the ecliptic, or some such nonsense. They've done enough damage.

I remember in the late 60's there were a bunch of h.s. science teachers raising a stink about kids rhyming uranus with "you-r-anus" so, being overly PC, they started rhyming it with "urine us." I am happy to report that the Greek god, the planet was named for, has not suffered a similar affliction (at least not at the university I hung around at 10 years ago). I still call them both "you ray nus."

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Sue ikki
mi hatenu yume no
hotsure kana---Choko
(This final scene, I
I will not see to the end.
My dream is fraying.)

Why don't you pronounce it like the Romans did?

As a non-English speaker I can say that Latin words sound really funny and weird when they're pronounced like English...

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Science is a way of trying not to fool yourself. The first principle is that you must not fool yourself, and you are the easiest person to fool.
-- Richard Feynman

As the discoverer, William Herschell properly named the 7th planet but his choice was contested for over 40 years. The French were not receptive to it and chose to name it Herschell. Finally, naming it Uranus was offered by the Germans, IIRC, and ended the dispute, butt, in hind sight, it was a mistake due to the obvious temptation presented to the inane.

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Lighten up! This is a stellar board! Author: duh.

"The Sun, with all the planets revolving around it, and depending on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as though it had nothing else in the universe to do..." Author: Galileo supposedly.

I saw a little .wav link on some NASA website once that tried to correct the spelling to YIRR-a-niss, thus avoiding the long a as in..., well, you all know what.

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Non sunt multiplicanda entia praeter necessitatem.

They already renamed Uranus to get around that phonetic FauPau

It's now called Urectum.

Thank you Futurama

Yeah, bit then you get the comeback "I am not a niss!"