[nihakue]

You could also just pronounce it the way the rest of the world does

[prepend]

I think GP is suggesting it be renamed to Urbutthole or something like that to make it specifically distinguished as camp and pun so as to filter out anyone who would set their scientific priorities based on the name of the celestial body.

I’m not one to scream about kids these days but it seems really weird that someone would suggest renaming a planet to avoid elementary school puns. And the puns probably help with Uranus science.

Of course, some DNA sequences were recently renamed to avoid Excel errors so maybe we’re entering the era of trying to make subjective changes because it’s hard to understand or hard to change objective things.

[TotempaaltJ]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3ppbbYXMxE

[mdp2021]

> funny name

'Uranus' is the same as 'Europa' (and many more terms): "breadth" - the former used for the vast cover which is the sky, the second for the land extension.

There's nothing funny about it unless one really hunts for coincidences in sounds through unduly overlappings.

What has «first language» do with it? If you read 'Al' in 'Alcohol' as "Alfred", you are reading it wrong: "Al" is a definite article there, irregardless of coincidences.

[gpvos]

In the aforementioned rest of the world, most people have another first language.

[bawolff]

Not really. There are two accepted pronunciations of uranus - one sounds a lot more like "your anus" than the other.

Either way, i find the juvenile jokes that come up whenever the planet is mentioned to be quite tiresome.

[Sharlin]

Which is why the GP suggested that y'all start pronouncing it the way most non-native-English speakers do, aka "the rest of the world".

[raducu]

Don't turn HN into reddit, please.

[rendall]

I, for one, applaud puerility.