God bless Mrs. Tibbits, who with a room of little 5th graders all with Oklahoma accents, stopped a classroom science lesson and said, "Okay, every one of you, one at a time, are going to say it correctly. URanus. Emphasis on the U and a short A.
URanus.
URanus.
She never did explain why.
She would also occasionally, if certain members of the class had behaved themselves and done their homework, recite The Highwayman from memory. Correctly, with a rythmic "Tlot tlot, tlot tlot..."
Anyway... URanus. There, that's the correct way. Thanks to Mrs. Tibbits. :)
smarty cats
1966 Elk City Jr. OK junior high, music class. None of the guys wanted to be there. Singing. The teacher was trying to get us to sing a song that had the word `poor' in it. Of course everyone was singing 'pour'. She: "No no no! `Poor' rhymes with `sure' ... but it stayed `pour'. She finally gave up. I suspect if our science teacher tried to get us to pronounce YOURanus, the smartest guy in the class might have said, "The ***hole planet?"