Spreading the video http://neilghosh.com/2011/02/19/veronica-on-astronomy/

Roll credits.

And it’s all perfectly fine.

Interesting. Are they English (as in from England) by any chance? The Webster’s I have from 1958 gives yoo-ráy-nus first and úr-eh-nus as an alternate. I suspect the latter was preferred on the eastern side of the pond.

I can honestly say I never heard the Urine Us pronunciation until after the Voyager spacecraft first arrived and TV talking heads suddenly found themselves having to say Your Anus on the air.

To John Hynes’s “In neither Latin nor Greek is there a ‘you’ in the name, so I don’t know why it is considered correct to have one there in English.”
A: Because that’s how English anglicizes words from Latin and Greek. Long u‘s sound like /yoo/ unless the preceding consonant is apical (t, d, s, z, n, sh, zh, ch, j or r, and usually th and l, especially at the beginning of a word).

As to “Uranus” it depends on whether the a was long in Latin. If it was, then that’s where the accent is. If not, the the accent is on the first u. I don’t have my Latin dictionary handy at the moment.

Not according to some old dictionaries I have about. In both the 1966 and 1936 volumes, Urine Us is the only pronunciation given.

But enough nit-picking… this is funny (and informative) stuff!