Today in Geology class, my professor was discussing the formation of the our solar system. As he was doing this, he happened to offhandedly mention the name of a certain planet...you know the one.
However, I noticed something interesting. He pronounced the name differently, not giving emphasis to the usual part. I thought "Well that's clever, he's trying to downplay the childish humor of that word."
Then I realized he had pronounced it "Urine-us."
Yup, still funny.
2 comments:
laughing right now..
I just read in "A Short History of Nearly Everything" (by Bill Bryson!) that the man who discovered Uranus wanted to name it George. Shame.
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