cacotopia

[Charles Doyle]

Hey, Wilson--

Who SAYS _Uranus_ "should be" pronounced with stress on the initial syllable??  I had never heard such a pronuniation (during half a century or so) until the planet became big in the news a few years back, when journalists and school-teachers got all embarrassed about folks' anuses.

Besides, we would still have the "urine" jokes . . . .

--Charlie
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---- Original message ----
>Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2006 15:31:29 -0400
>From: Wilson Gray <hwgray at GMAIL.COM>
>Subject: Re: cacotopia
>To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
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>If not for the tradition of dealing with Greek by way of Latin in English letters, the two words would be spelled "Outopie" and "Eutopie." And Uranus would be spelled "Ouranos," saving us or, at least, saving me, from all those asinine puns based on mis-stressing "Uranus" as "y at -RAY-n@s," when it should be "YOU-r at n@s."
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>-Wilson

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