Uranus
On the radio the other day, someone said "Uranus" in such a way that it sounded like an adjective, "urinous." According to Wikipedia, that's actually the earliest of the current...
Archive for Pronunciation
novice and eiderdown
At WorldCon, I ran into a couple of reading pronunciations I hadn't heard before. A reading pronunciation happens when you learn a word by reading it rather than hearing it...
googly-eyed ogle
There's been some discussion on a mailing list lately about pronunciation of "ogle." I've always pronounced "ogle" to rhyme with "mogul," and it bugs me every time I hear it...