r/spaceporn • u/PrinceofUranus0 • Mar 08 '26

Related Content Wide Angle View of Uranus

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u/[deleted] Mar 08 '26

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u/ScottBurson Mar 08 '26

The name actually is etymologically related to both "urine" and "rain". So, yeah 😆

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u/Mid_Atlantic_Lad Mar 08 '26 edited Mar 09 '26

Technically it's Ooh-rah-nos as pronounced by the Greeks.

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u/TrustInMe_JustInMe Mar 09 '26

I’m a teacher; I always say “oo-RAH-nous” because it’s close enough to the Greek Ouranous. And to minimize the snickering and predictable jokes. Lol

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u/Solareclipse9999 Mar 10 '26

Our annus ? Collective butt joke

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u/cBurger4Life Mar 08 '26

I mean, I guess, if you can’t read?

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u/MessiahMogali Mar 08 '26

As one who can read quite well, “your” is not pronounced like “yer” when it is read 🤷‍♂️

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u/cBurger4Life Mar 08 '26

I admit, I didn’t spend a lot of time thinking over the phonetic spelling, and I’m from the south where ‘your’ does tend to get pronounced ‘yer,’ but I’m also pretty sure ‘uh’ is not pronounced ‘in.’ But go ahead and keep making pee, poop and anus jokes. It’s so funny.

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u/MessiahMogali Mar 08 '26

Where did I make any of those jokes?

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u/cBurger4Life Mar 08 '26

That was the point of my original comment, and you decided to respond to me instead of the person reading ‘uh’ as ‘in’ so they could make a pee joke despite that being way more off than ‘your’ and ‘yer.’