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Originally Posted by PeteMo
It's a bit like pronouncing Uranus. Most folk I heard pronounced it 'Your-anus' until the joke about the gay space man, Beavis & Buthead, Wayne's World etc, then I heard the pronunciation 'urine-us'.
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It was explained by Perry Vlahos (President of ASV) that since Uranus is from Ancient Greek, the correct pronunciation would be like "Oo-ran-oss"