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by SonnyTark 1830 days ago
in Arabic (and a bunch of other languages I'm sure) it's pronounced: Oranos, I don't understand why the U in Uranus is not pronounced like the U in Ultra.
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project2501a 1830 days ago
Cuz in Greek (my mother language), we pronounce "Ουρανός" as "Ouranos".
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Koshkin 1830 days ago
> ”Our

Good to know, I guess...

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jazzyjackson 1830 days ago
A shot in the dark but I think there’s a lot of “ult”s in English but not many “ura”s

Uranium and Urine

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grishka 1830 days ago
In Russian it's simply "Ooran".
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