A thread for Uranus

That list at the bottom of the page is a riot (to a mentally 12 year old like myself)

A few highlights:

Charmin
Mission Colonoscopy
Prostate Exam
Suppository
 
DRC members – except for myself, of course – pronounce the name of the planet as "Your anus." Astronomers pronounce it as "YOOR-uh-nus." The planet is named for Ouranos (pronounced "oor-uh-NOHSS" in Greek), the Greek god of the sky and father of the Titans.
 
Channel98 said:
DRC members – except for myself, of course – pronounce the name of the planet as "Your anus." Astronomers pronounce it as "YOOR-uh-nus." The planet is named for Ouranos (pronounced "oor-uh-NOHSS" in Greek), the Greek god of the sky and father of the Titans.
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This may be true; but as someone who has been around for a while, I seem to remember that in the olden days, people said your-ANUS, and snickered. Then one day, some scientists launched a campaign to pronounce it YOOR-uh-nus. And it went over about as well as the metric system.
 
Oh yuh.. URINE-us is so much better than your-ANUS ;)

It's kinda like when the news stations were getting crap for saying sexual hahr-ASS-ment, so they started saying HĂR-iss-ment instead.
 
sadchild said:
the news stations were getting crap for saying sexual hahr-ASS-ment, so they started saying HĂR-iss-ment instead.
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"Harass" rhymes with "embarrass." Have you hever heard anyone pronounce "embarrass" as "em-bare-ASS"? News anchors were wrong to change the pronunciation. This is from the Dictionary-dot-com website:

"harass , a 17th-century borrowing from French, has traditionally been pronounced in English as [har-uhs], with stress on the first syllable. A newer pronunciation, [huh-ras], has developed in North American (but not British) English and has become the more common one in the U.S., especially among younger speakers."
 
The MLS franchise Houston Dynamo had some fun with Uranus with a new sponsor.

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