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To: cripplecreek

In fact the planets name is pronounced "YOOR-in-us", but who am I to spoil a joke that was tiresome on the playground


28 posted on 02/23/2006 5:05:44 PM PST by muir_redwoods (Free Sirhan Sirhan, after all, the bastard who killed Mary Jo Kopechne is walking around free)
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To: muir_redwoods

you-RAY-nus is the correct pronounciation. Sagan was also wrong about Comet "Hal-lee" (in England, Edmund Halley pronounced it "Hall ee", as in kids in the), among other things.


33 posted on 02/23/2006 9:51:58 PM PST by SunkenCiv (My Sunday Feeling is that Nothing is easy. Goes for the rest of the week too.)
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