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Dark Sky poll
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- PlutoniumLounger
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Re: Dark Sky poll
I've been listening to some material on space recently. One thing that struck me was that They were pronouncing Uranus with an emphasis on the first syllable, and not on the second syllable, as I remembered.
It turns out that it's not that I've misremembered - the pronunciation has actually changed - prompted perhaps partially by the schoolboy jokes.
https://melmagazine.com/en-us/story/ura ... s-urine-us
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- Cosmic Lounger
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YOOH-ran-ohs does appear to have caught on but changing a habit of a lifetime is tricky! I generally use YOR-an-ohs, oo er missus! Oh I see why they changed if now! But really, as the article says, maybe we should be calling Father sky, husband of Gaia, Earth Mother, OOH-ran-ohs, as the Romans did.
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Re: Dark Sky poll
Best wishes,
Hans
Hans
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- PlatinumLounger
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Re: Dark Sky poll
In terms of the poll question.
I'm short sighted, so without glasses, I can't see any stars at night unaided. I can see one during the day.
I'm short sighted, so without glasses, I can't see any stars at night unaided. I can see one during the day.
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- Cosmic Lounger
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Spitting Image was so funny!
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watch? WATCH?!!???
In my final year at high school, not so far from the Houtman Abrolhos reefs which wrecked the Dutch ships some four hundred years prior to our time, we were set a play, a tragedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written between 1605 and 1608. The play is based on the life of the legendary Roman leader Caius Marcius Coriolanus.
Try taking turns reading that play aloud, twice a week, for an entire term! In a class (5A) of twenty-six boys; no girls.
Cheers, Chris
He who plants a seed, plants life.
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- PlutoniumLounger
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Re: Dark Sky poll
Ee Lad! Tha' were looky. Wur I live we can't see a single star, day nor night, even wit t'snow melted dahn Winders!
Cheers
Chris
P.S. I decided not to include the traditional link to The Four Yorkshiremen.
He who plants a seed, plants life.