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It sounds bad only in English and partly because of the foreign spelling. In Bulgarian it the name spells and reads “Uran”.
by dzink 9y ago
It sounds bad only in English and partly because of the foreign spelling. In Bulgarian it the name spells and reads “Uran”.
- JumpCrisscross 9y ago> In Bulgarian it the name spells and reads “Uran” Uranus was discovered by British-Hanoverian William Herschel [1] and named after the Greek god of the sky, Οὐρανός [2], which anglifies to Ouranos. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Herschel https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Herschel [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uranus_(mythology) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uranus_(mythology)
- dzink 9y agoThe comical pronunciation is only comical when Our-/Ur- as a prefix resembles a relevant word in your language. The second part of the joke comes from the greek spelling/pronunciation which is also not used by all countries/languages referring to the same planet.