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Uranus. Your anus. You’re in us. As hard as you might try, it’s almost impossible to avoid smirking when you hear the name of the seventh planet. This video, by GCP Grey, takes a look at the history of its name, how it could have had a monicker that made fewer children laugh and — most importantly — how to go about pronouncing it on those rare occasions when you simply have to refer to it directly. [YouTube]
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Ah, memories of GCSE physics…
“Sir, is it true that there’s a ring of debris around Uranus?”
There are linguistic conventions on these things that dictate pronunciation. The correct pronunciation in English (as CGPGrey denotes phonetically) is: “Yoo-rain-us”.
Unfortunately, there are schools of thought that suggest that language is not based on convention but rather a constantly evolving collection of signs and signifiers decided upon by the community that agrees collectively to use them. In other words; once upon a time, a group of people decided that when somebody made the sound “Tree” with their mouth…it meant that they were indicating the greenish thing that grows out of the ground and has roots and leaves. If that community then evolved as a collective into calling that object “Scrungemuffler”, then “Tree” would eventually be out of the dictionary.
I therefore consider it to be your moral duty to pronounce the English “Yoo-rain-us”, if only to stop American idiots eventually taking over another of our words (they’re already killing the Adverb!).
Reminds of me of that single astronomy joke that I know:
Boy to father “Dad, is uranus bigger than mars?”
You’ll be telling us that aluminium has an extra “i” next…. oh,. wait….
I remember when Uranus wasn’t a joke.
Can’t remember when it actually became a joke, just that it suddenly happened.