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By: Keith Bowden

February 17, 2011, 9:47 am

Well, for my money it’s still “ur-a-nus” and “kare-on”. After all, it’s how Klaatu pronounced them! (The band, not Michael Rennie.) But enough nit-picking… this is funny (and informative) stuff!

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@#1, kuhnigget: “Up until the jokes started flying in the late 1980s, it was always pronounced Your Anus. Hence the jokes. Then it suddenly became Urine Us.” Not according to some old dictionaries I...

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By: Matt B.

February 17, 2011, 3:46 pm

A transliteration of chi should be pronounced /k/ in English. The British are weird for pronouncing it /sh/ in “chiropodist”. To John Hynes’s “In neither Latin nor Greek is there a ‘you’ in the name,...

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By: kuhnigget

February 17, 2011, 4:20 pm

@ Isaac #33: Interesting. Are they English (as in from England) by any chance? The Webster’s I have from 1958 gives yoo-ráy-nus first and úr-eh-nus as an alternate. I suspect the latter was preferred...

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By: Brian Too

February 17, 2011, 4:25 pm

Those anemones are certainly the largest I’ve ever seen! Also the most talkative, intelligent, yet with a weird accent. And the only ones with a second mouth on the side. With teeth! And it’s all...

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By: Matt B.

February 17, 2011, 5:42 pm

Okay, my Latin dictionary doesn’t have it, but my two-volume English dictionary indicates in the etymology that the a is short. Therefore, it is /YOO-ra-nuss/.

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