{"id":10878,"date":"2008-01-29T10:05:18","date_gmt":"2008-01-29T18:05:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/neology\/2008\/01\/29\/uranus.html"},"modified":"2008-01-29T10:05:18","modified_gmt":"2008-01-29T18:05:18","slug":"uranus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/2008\/01\/29\/uranus\/","title":{"rendered":"Uranus"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>On the radio the other day, someone said \"Uranus\" in such a way that it sounded like an adjective, \"urinous.\"  <a href=\" \">According to Wikipedia<\/a>, that's actually the earliest of the current common English pronunciations; I had always thought it was a new pronunciation chosen to avoid sounding like \"your anus,\" but Wikipedia says it was the other way around.<\/p>\n<p>Wikipedia also mentions a third pronunciation that looks like it would sound more or less like \"you <em>ran<\/em> us,\" which avoids both of the off-color homonyms. Fair enough.<\/p>\n<p>But I would like to propose yet another pronunciation, to both avoid the homonyms and make clear how silly the whole thing is: oo-RAAAAHN-oos. (In <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kirshenbaum.net\/IPA\/english.html\">ASCII IPA<\/a>: \/u 'rAA nus\/.)<\/p>\n<p>It's important to hold that second syllable, making the whole thing sound sort of like a war cry. In fact, ideally the word would be sort of half-sung while charging into battle.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the radio the other day, someone said &#8220;Uranus&#8221; in such a way that it sounded like an adjective, &#8220;urinous.&#8221; According to Wikipedia, that&#8217;s actually the earliest of the current&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[70],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pronunciation"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10878","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10878"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10878\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}