On Celebrity Family Feud, Steve Harvey got schooled by Neil deGrasse Tyson on the proper pronunciation of Uranus. According to Tyson, it’s pronounced “yer-uh-nus” instead of the more comedic ...

Most scientists follow this pronunciation for exactly that reason: it’s neutral. It avoids the scatological “yoor-AY-nuhss” ...

The common pronunciation of the planet "Uranus" (yoo-RAIN-us) often elicits giggles — to the extent that old reference books avoided using the name whenever possible, according this video by C.G.P.

Uranus is the butt of many jokes for obvious reasons. But how do scientists pronounce the name of the planet-and who named it that in the first place? Though English astronomer John Flamsteed was the ...